Dr. William Decker is a Professor in the Department of Pathology & Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Decker received a B.S. in Biology from Tufts University and a Ph.D. in Molecular in Human Genetics from Baylor College of Medicine in 2001. Following early career work in industry, he spent seven years as Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center where he studied basic dendritic cell biology, transplant immunology, and developed cell-based treatment strategies for cancer. In 2011, Dr. Decker joined the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine, establishing a research group that studies basic dendritic cell immunobiology and maintains basic, translational, and clinical immunotherapy research programs for a variety of different cancers. He has been a sponsor or investigator on four INDs, an inventor of eleven patents, and serves as a scientific and medical advisor of Diakonos Oncology, a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company he co-founded in 2015, that is currently performing pivotal trials in cell-based immunotherapy of glioblastoma.
