Professor, UC San Diego Department of Pathology and Moores Cancer Center
rklemke@ucsd.edu

Dr. Klemke is Professor of Pathology and Cancer Biology at the University of California, San Diego’s, Medical School and Moores Cancer Center, where he serves as the Director of the Cancer Imaging Network and the Pathology Department’s Proteomics Center of Excellence. He earned his Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Dr. Klemke was a research scientist at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) before joining UCSD and the Moores Cancer Center as Professor of Pathology in 2006. He has been a very active teacher, mentor, lecturer, and consultant in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries for more than two decades, and is the founder of BioSystems Consulting and Cytonus Therapeutics in San Diego.  His laboratory has received numerous federal and private awards to develop novel therapeutics aimed at cancer and to investigate the underlying mechanisms that drive cancer progression and cancer immunity.  Dr. Klemke is internationally recognized for his work in cancer biology, immunology, stem cell therapeutics, and proteomics.   His work has produced novel cell-based therapeutics directed at cancer and the immune system and has unlocked newfound insights and concepts that explain how malignant tumors develop, induce a blood supply, and avoid immune recognition.