# Valentín Ortiz-Maldonado

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## TL;DR

Barcelona haematologist who led the clinical reports of ARI-0001, the hospital's own CD19 CAR-T, from the first trial to its use in mantle cell lymphoma.

## Summary

Valentín Ortiz-Maldonado is a haematologist at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and FRCB-IDIBAPS, according to the affiliation on his 2026 HemaSphere paper. He is first author of the 2021 Molecular Therapy report of CART19-BE-01, in which 47 of 58 included patients were treated with ARI-0001 and fractionated dosing cut grade 3 or higher cytokine release syndrome in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia from 26.7% to 4.3%, and senior author of the 2026 report on varnimcabtagene autoleucel in relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma, where overall response among 27 infused patients was 89%. He also first-authored the ARI-0001 reports in leukaemia with isolated extramedullary disease and in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-11-03
- Also known as: Valentín Ortíz-Maldonado; V Ortiz-Maldonado
- Role: Haematologist, Department of Hematology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and FRCB-IDIBAPS; Universitat de Barcelona
- Specialisms: CAR-T cell therapy; Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia; Lymphoma

## Sources

- PubMed author search: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Ortiz-Maldonado%20V%5BAuthor%5D

## Connected records

- institutions: [Hospital Clínic de Barcelona / IDIBAPS](https://onco.cc/institutions/hospital-clinic-barcelona/)
- trials: [CART19-BE-01 (ARI-0001 CAR-T, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona)](https://onco.cc/trials/cart19-be-01/)
- key papers: [CART19-BE-01: A Multicenter Trial of ARI-0001 Cell Therapy in Patients with CD19(+) Relapsed/Refractory Malignancies](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-cart19-be-01-mol-ther-2021/)

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