Robert L. Truitt, PhD

Titles
Investigator; Children's Research Institute; professor, Pediatrics (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), associate director, Basic Science Research Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin

Division
Hematology, Oncology and Transplant

Research interests
Bone marrow transplantation, graft versus host disease, graft versus-leukemia reaction, immune tolerance, immunoregulation.

Education
Doctorate, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1973; post-doctoral fellowship, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind., 1972-1974.

Honors
Scholar, Leukemia Society of America, 1978-1983; Board of Directors, American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 2004-2007; Associate Editor, Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation.

Representative publications

• Truitt RL, Johnson BD, Hanke C, Talib S, Hearst JE. Photochemical Treatment with S-59 Psoralen and Ultraviolet a Light to Control the Fate of Naive or Primed T Lymphocytes in Vivo after Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation. Journal Of Immunology. 1999; 163:5145-5156.
• Johnson BD, Becker EE, Labelle JL, Truitt RL. Role of Immunoregulatory Donor T Cells in Suppression of Graft-Versus-Host Disease Following Donor Leukocyte Infusion Therapy. Journal Of Immunology. 1999; 163:6479-6487.
• Labelle JL, Hanke CA, Blazar BR, Truitt RL. Negative Effect of CTLA-4 on Induction of T-Cell Immunity in Vivo to B7-1+, but not B7-2+. Murine Myelogenous Leukemia. 2002; I 99:2146-2153.
• Labelle JL, Truitt RL. Characterization of a Murine NKT Cell Tumor Previously Described as an Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. Leukemia And Lymphoma. 2002; 43:1637-1644.
• Johnson BD, Konkol MC, Truitt RL. CD25+ Immunoregulatory T Cells of Donor Origin Suppress Alloreactivity after BMT. Biology Of Blood And Marrow Transplantation. 2002; 8:525-535.
• Rosenblum MD, Olasz E, Woodliff JE, Johnson BD, Konkol MC, Gerber KA, Orentas RJ, Sandford G, Truitt RL. CD200 is a Novel P53-target Gene Involved in Apoptosis-associated Immune Tolerance. Blood. 2004 Apr. [Epub Nov. 26, 2003]

Grants

• Allospecific Immunoregulatory T-cells in Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients, National Institutes of Health/Nationl Heart Lung and Blood Institute, grant R21-HL69721, principal investigator.
• Medical College of Wisconsin Institutional Research Grant, American Cancer Society, principal investigator.

Contact
Children's Research Institute
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
Phone: (414) 456-4163
Fax: (414) 456-6543
E-mail: rtruitt@mcw.edu