Amanda Li

MD, MSc

Investigator, Michael Cuccione Childhood Cancer Research Program, and Physician, BC Children's Hospital

Dr. Amanda Li graduated from Dalhousie University medical school in 2010, and completed her Pediatrics residency and Pediatric Hematology-Oncology fellowship at the University of British Columbia. Following this, she trained at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the field of Cancer Immunotherapy and Bone Marrow Transplant, with a clinical and research focus on using genetically engineered cell therapies in the treatment of hematologic malignancies.

Academic Affiliations

  • Clinical Assistant Professor, , Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
  • Research Theme: Childhood Diseases
  • Research Group(s): Childhood Cancer and Blood Research

Contact Information

Location

4480 Oak Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6H3V4

With BiTEs at the kiddie table, where do CARs come in for pediatric B-ALL?

Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program

Li AM and Maude SL

DOI: 10.1182/hematology.2025000735 PubMed: 41348006

12 / 2025

Improvements in health-related quality of life in patients with transfusion-dependent -thalassemia after exagamglogene autotemcel.

Blood advances

Fuente J and Frangoul H and Lang P and Wall D and Meisel R and Corbacioglu S and Li AM and Shah AJ and Carpenter B and Kwiatkowski JL and Mapara MY and Liem RI and Rupprecht J and Kuo KHM and Locatelli F

DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2025016702 PubMed: 40862696

12 / 2025

Distinct Biological Subtypes of Chronic GVHD after Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation.

Blood

Ng B and Harris AC and Abdossamadi S and Aubert G and Bajwa RP and Bhatia M and Bittencourt H and Buxbaum NP and Caywood EH and Chaudhury S and Chewning JH and Choi SW and Chopek A and Schultz KR

DOI: 10.1182/blood.2025028625 PubMed: 41060324

10 / 2025

A multicenter observational cohort study in survivors of Down Syndrome-associated acute leukemia (ALTE22C1): a report from the Children's Oncology Group.

BMC cancer

Gramatges MM and Sanclemente LN and Hall L and Taylor OA and Nuo MM and Bhatia S and Chow EJ and Getz KD and Hitzler JK and Li AM and McCloskey K and Nathan PC and O'Brien MM and Patel S and Rabin KR

DOI: 10.1186/s12885-025-14898-z PubMed: 41116168

10 / 2025

Identification of Distinct Subtypes in Immune Tolerance after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Using the Prospective ABLE1.0 Pediatric Study Cohort.

Transplantation and cellular therapy

Ng B and Harris AC and Abdossamadi S and Lauener MP and Aubert G and Bajwa R and Bhatia M and Bittencourt H and Buxbaum NP and Caywood EH and Chaudhury S and Chewning JH and Choi SW and Schultz KR

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtct.2025.09.034 PubMed: 41033605

09 / 2025

Infectious Complications During Reinduction in Children with Relapsed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Descriptive Analysis.

Pediatric hematology and oncology

Chok R and Li AM

DOI: 10.1080/08880018.2025.2550516 PubMed: 40884783

08 / 2025

The role of C-reactive protein and ferritin in the diagnosis of HLH, adult-onset still's disease, and COVID-19 cytokine storm.

Scientific reports

Goubran M and Spaner C and Stukas S and Zoref-Lorenz A and Shojania K and Beckett M and Li A and Peterson E and Sekhon M and Grey R and Wellington C and Cheng CV and Biggs CM and Setiadi A

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-82760-6 PubMed: 39732949

12 / 2024

Blinatumomab in Standard-Risk B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Children.

The New England journal of medicine

Gupta S and Rau RE and Kairalla JA and Rabin KR and Wang C and Angiolillo AL and Alexander S and Carroll AJ and Conway S and Gore L and Kirsch I and Kubaney HR and Li AM and McNeer JL and Loh ML

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa2411680 PubMed: 39651791

12 / 2024

Exagamglogene Autotemcel for Transfusion-Dependent -Thalassemia.

The New England journal of medicine

Locatelli F and Lang P and Wall D and Meisel R and Corbacioglu S and Li AM and de la Fuente J and Shah AJ and Carpenter B and Kwiatkowski JL and Mapara M and Liem RI and Cappellini MD and CLIMB THAL-111 Study Group

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa2309673 PubMed: 38657265

04 / 2024

Monolobated megakaryocytes in Diamond-Blackfan anemia with RPL5 mutation at disease presentation mimicking myelodysplastic syndrome.

Pediatric blood & cancer

Setiadi A and Singh C and Li A and Au N and Amid A

DOI: 10.1002/pbc.30771 PubMed: 37988264

11 / 2023

A distinct case of an 8-year-old female with cyclic neutropenia presenting with C. septicum abdominal sepsis and myonecrosis requiring a bowel resection and leg fasciotomy.

Journal of surgical case reports

Anzinger H and Cadili L and Li A and Barclay A and Hayashi AH

DOI: 10.1093/jscr/rjad512 PubMed: 37727224

09 / 2023

Is It Possible to Separate the Graft-Versus-Leukemia (GVL) Effect Against B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia From Graft-Versus-Host Disease (GVHD) After Hematopoietic Cell Transplant?

Frontiers in pediatrics

Rozmus J and Bhatt ST and Buxbaum NP and Cuvelier GDE and Li AM and Kitko CL and Schultz KR

DOI: 10.3389/fped.2022.796994 PubMed: 35402356

03 / 2022

Successful rescue transplant for children with primary graft failure using early intervention with a single day preparative regimen and related haploidentical donor.

Bone marrow transplantation

Subburaj D and Li AM and Rozmus J and Schultz KR

DOI: 10.1038/s41409-021-01309-7 PubMed: 33927347

04 / 2021

CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing for Sickle Cell Disease and -Thalassemia.

The New England journal of medicine

Frangoul H and Altshuler D and Cappellini MD and Chen YS and Domm J and Eustace BK and Foell J and de la Fuente J and Grupp S and Handgretinger R and Ho TW and Kattamis A and Corbacioglu S

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa2031054 PubMed: 33283989

12 / 2020

"Age Related Differences in the Biology of Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation".

Frontiers in immunology

Cuvelier GDE and Li A and Drissler S and Kariminia A and Abdossamadi S and Rozmus J and Chanoine JP and Ng B and Mostafavi S and Brinkman RR and Schultz KR

DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.571884 PubMed: 33193355

10 / 2020

HMMR acts in the PLK1-dependent spindle positioning pathway and supports neural development.

eLife

Connell M and Chen H and Jiang J and Kuan CW and Fotovati A and Chu TL and He Z and Lengyell TC and Li H and Kroll T and Li AM and Goldowitz D and Frappart L and Ploubidou A and Patel MS and Maxwell CA

DOI: 10.7554/elife.28672 PubMed: 28994651

10 / 2017

Hypotension associated with ingestion of cannabinoids in two children with cancer.

CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne

Li AM and Rassekh SR

DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.150847 PubMed: 26927969

02 / 2016

EZH2 expression is a prognostic factor in childhood intracranial ependymoma: a Canadian Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium study.

Cancer

Li AM and Dunham C and Tabori U and Carret AS and McNeely PD and Johnston D and Lafay-Cousin L and Wilson B and Eisenstat DD and Jabado N and Zelcer S and Silva M and Scheinemann K and Hukin J

DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29198 PubMed: 25586788

01 / 2015

White matter injury in term newborns with neonatal encephalopathy.

Pediatric research

Li AM and Chau V and Poskitt KJ and Sargent MA and Lupton BA and Hill A and Roland E and Miller SP

DOI: 10.1203/pdr.0b013e31818912d2 PubMed: 18787422

01 / 2009

Acetylcholine receptor gamma-subunits mRNA isoforms expressed in denervated rat muscle.

Molecular neurobiology

Li AM and Ma H and Villarroel A

DOI: 10.1007/s12035-008-8030-3 PubMed: 18548353

04 / 2008

Deletion of the nuclear receptor Nr2e1 impairs synaptic plasticity and dendritic structure in the mouse dentate gyrus.

Neuroscience

Christie BR and Li AM and Redila VA and Booth H and Wong BK and Eadie BD and Ernst C and Simpson EM

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.08.091 PubMed: 16289828

11 / 2005

Reduced synaptic plasticity in the lateral perforant path input to the dentate gyrus of aged C57BL/6 mice.

Journal of neurophysiology

Froc DJ and Eadie B and Li AM and Wodtke K and Tse M and Christie BR

DOI: 10.1152/jn.00105.2003 PubMed: 12634277

03 / 2003

Rhodanese distribution in porcine (Sus scrofa) tissues.

Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part B, Biochemistry & molecular biology

Aminlari M and Li A and Kunanithy V and Scaman CH

DOI: 10.1016/s1096-4959(02)00005-2 PubMed: 12031455

06 / 2002

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