Richard K Burt is a Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He endeavored for 35 years, first with animal models then with some of the world’s first clinical trials, to bring the field of stem cell and cellular therapy to the patient’s bedside. Burt has published 140 mostly first author articles and is the Editor of three medical textbooks. He was the first Autoimmune Committee Chairperson for the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry (IBMTR) and was the principal investigator of a National Institute of Health (NIH) $10,000,000.00 multi-center contract to develop stem cell clinical trials for autoimmune diseases. Professor Burt performed America’s first hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) for multiple sclerosis (MS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Crohn’s disease (CD), stiff person syndrome (SPS), and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) and published the world’s first randomized clinical stem cell transplantation trials for systemic sclerosis and multiple sclerosis. He has been awarded Leukemia Scholar of America, the Lupus Foundation of America Fidelitas Award, the Van Bekkum Award by the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, and the Distinguished Clinical Achievement Award by the Clinical Research Forum.
