Jochen Buechner

Dr. Jochen Büchner is a pediatrician and senior consultant at the Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Oslo University Hospital. He earned his MD from the University Medical School in Freiburg, Germany, and completed his PhD research on miRNAs in neuroblastoma. Since 2014, Dr. Büchner has served as the Clinical Program Director for Norway’s national Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation program. His current research focuses on acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), myelodysplastic syndromes/severe aplastic anemia (MDS/SAA), hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), and immunotherapies, including early-phase clinical trials and engineered T cells. He has been the principal investigator for multicenter CAR-T cell trials in pediatric ALL/lymphoma since 2015 and oversees Norway’s pediatric CAR-T cell program. Dr. Büchner also leads a project on TCR T-cell therapy development in ALL and collaborates on research within the Nordic Society of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (NOPHO) and the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT).