Carl June is a physician scientist and the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in the Departments of Medicine and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He is the director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at the Perelman School of Medicine, and the Director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Colorado and raised in California, June graduated from the US Naval Academy and earned his medical degree in from the Baylor College of Medicine. He spent his fourth year of medical school at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, studying immunology and malaria. June conducted postdoctoral research in transplantation biology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle from 1983 to 1986. June served as president of the Clinical Immunology Society and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine. He is the scientific co-founder of Tmunity Therapeutics (acquired by Kite Pharma), Dispatch Biotherapeutics, Capstan Therapeutics (acquired by Abbvie) and Bluewhale Bio. CTL019, the CAR T cell developed in the June laboratory was the first gene therapy to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.