Alexander Chanchi Huang, MD
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology)
- Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology
My education and training
- Medical School: Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Residency: Barnes-Jewish Hospital - Washington University, St. Louis
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Medical Oncology, 2017
- Internal Medicine, 2013
- American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), National
- Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI), National
- Society for Immuonotherapy of Cancer (SITC), National
- Abramson Cancer Center
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Wang H, Liu S, Sinha P, Liu F, Zhang X, Guo Y, Goncalves B, Zheng Q, Mou H, Yang J, Huang L, Miao F, Zeng T, Karakousis G, Huang AC, Mitchell T, Amaravadi R, Schuchter L, Milone M, Guo W, June C, Herlyn M, Fan Y, Xu X DR5 CAR-T cells target melanoma and suppress MDSCs with minimal toxicity , Molecular Therapy , 34(3): 2026
Messing I, Linkowski L, Riina MD, Berger M, Baron J, Wang X, Kallan M, Hubbeling HG, Lustig RA, Dorsey JF, Kurtz G, Nagda S, Lukens JN, Flowers A, Lee JYK, Amankulor NM, Jackson C, Mohan S, Amaravadi RK, Schuchter LM, Huang AC, Mitchell TC, Alonso-Basanta M, Lebow ES Outcomes after SRS and ipilimumab plus nivolumab for melanoma brain metastases following prior immune checkpoint inhibitor or targeted therapy. , Oncologist, 31(4): 2026
Park SL, Painter MM, Manne S, Alcalde V, McLaughlin M, Sullivan MA, Mathew D, Torres L, Huang YJ, Reeg DB, Douek NR, Campos T, Klapholz M, Cardenas MA, Fang V, Ngiow SF, Kc W, Goel RR, Baxter AE, Wu JE, Tan M, Berry CT, Ellebrecht CT, Huang AC, Papazian E, Liu Y, Rajasekaran K, Brody RM, Thaler ER, Basu D, Diab A, Giles JR, Wherry EJ Tissue-resident exhausted and memory CD8(+) T cells have distinct ontogeny, function and role in disease , Nature Immunology, 27(1): 2026
Lucas MW, Burton EM, Dimitriadis P, Huang AC, Long GV, Mitchell TC, Amaria RN, Blank CU Immune signature-based uncoupling of checkpoint inhibitor efficacy and toxicity , Immunity, 59(1): 2026
Wang G, Yoon D, Nandi A, Patel K, Azar T, Kim J, Han NA, Nickie A, Park S, Wang K, Yan P, Divaker S, Tabita-Martinez J, Giles L, Carberry M, Beltra JC, Painter MM, Alanio C, Amaravadi RK, Schuchter LM, Carreno BM, Linette GP, Elder DE, Brody RM, Gimotty P, Miura JT, Karakousis GC, Xu X, Mitchell TC, Huang AC Antigen-specific profiling identifies T-bet(+) melanoma-specific CD8(+) T cells associated with response to neoadjuvant PD-1 blockade , Cancer Cell, 44(1): 2026
Ma KL, Mitchell TC, Dougher M, Sharon CE, Tortorello GN, Elder DE, Morgan EE, Gimotty PA, Huang AC, Amaravadi RK, Schuchter LM, Flowers A, Miura JT, Karakousis GC, Xu X Engineered extracellular vesicles with DR5 agonistic scFvs simultaneously target tumor and immunosuppressive stromal cells. , Science Advances, 11(3): 2025
Ma KL, Mitchell TC, Dougher M, Sharon CE Tortorello GN, elder DE, Morgan EE, Gimotty PA, Huang AC, Amaravadi RK, Schuchter LM, Flowers A, Muira JT, Karakousis GC, Xu X. Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in necrotic tumors after melanoma neoadjuvant anti-PD1 therapy correlate with pathologic response and recurrence-free survival. , Clin Cancer Res., 30(21): 2024
1., Wang K, Coutifaris P, Brocks D, Wang G, Azar T, Solis S, Nandi A, Anderson S, Han N, Manne S, Kiner E, Sachar C, Lucas M, George S, Yan P, Kier M, Laughlin AI, Kothari S, Giles JR. and Mathew D, Ghinnagow R, Alanio C, Flowers A, Xu W, Tenney D, Xu, X, Amaravadi RK, Karakousis GC, Schuchter LM, Buggert M, Oldridge D, Minn A, Blank C, Weber J, Mitchell, TC, Farwell MD, Herati R*, Huang, AC* Combination anti-PD-1 and anti-CTLA-4 therapy generates waves of clonal responses that include progenitor-exhausted CD8 T cells , Cancer Cell, 42(9): 2024,1582-1597
Ngiow SF, Manne S, Huang YJ, Azar T, Chen Z, Matthew D, Chen Q, Khan O, Wu JE, ALcade V, Flowers AJ, McClain S, Baxter AE, Kurachi M, Shi J, Huang AC, Giles JR, Sharpe AH, Vignali, DAA, Wherry EJ. LAB-3 sustains TOX expression and regulates the CD94/NKG2-Qa-1b axis to govern exhausted CD8 T cell NK expression and cytotoxicity. , Cell, 187(16): 2024,4336-4354
Mathew D, Maramareis ME, Foley C, Bauml JM, Ye D, Ghinnagow R, Ngiow SF, Klapholz M, Jun S, Zhang Z, Zorc R, Davis CW, Diehn M, Giles JR, Huang AC, Hwang WT, Zhang NR, Schoenfeld AJ, Carpenter EL, Langer CJ, Wherry EJ, Minn AJ. Combined JAK Inhibition and PD-1 immunotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer patients. , Science, 384(6702): 2024