- Amyloidosis
- Lymphoma
- Monoclonal gammopathy
- Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance
- Multiple myeloma
- Plasma cell leukemia
- Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia
Alfred L. Garfall, MD, MS
About me
- Director, Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
- Section Chief, Myeloma, Hematology-Oncology
- Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Medical School: New York University School of Medicine
- Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
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Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Hematology, 2016
- Medical Oncology, 2014
- American Society of Clinical Oncology, National
- American Society of Hematology, National
- Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network, National
- Janssen Pharmaceuticals, International
- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, National
- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, National
- Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, National
- Penn Bone Marrow Transplant and Stem Cell Transplant Program
- Penn Cellular Therapy and Transplant Program
- Penn Hematological Malignancies (Blood Cancer) Program
- Penn Multiple Myeloma Program
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Bhoj VG, Kaminski M, Zhao H, Jackson K, Wang W, Liu C, Montgomery RA, Ali N, Mangiola M, Spitzer TR, Safa K, Pattanayak V, Taj R, Chiu J, Bui TM, Sonnenberg EM, Markmann JF, Milone MC, June CH, Siegel DL, Fraietta JA, Gonzalez V, Locci M, Palmer M, Monos D, Hwang WT, Sledge T, Bridges ND, Goldstein JS, Odim J, Sweet SC, Besharatian BD, Hussain SM, Brown NK, Kamoun M, Garfall AL, Naji A. Kidney Transplantation in Two Highly Sensitized Candidates after CAR T-Cell Therapy , N Engl J Med, 394: 2026,2117-2125
Ho M, Paruzzo L, Noll JH, Stella F, Devi P, Ndeupen S, Day YA, Chen GM, Cohen IJ, Ramirez-Fernandez A, Waxman A, Kapur S, Chen F, Xu R, Huff A, Jarocha D, Patel V, Bochi-Layec AC, Ramasubramanian R, Liu S, Bouvier R, de Souza VB, Patel H, Li Z, Carturan A, Michener P, Hopkins CR, Koucky O, Minehart J, Dimitri A, Nabar NR, Hasanali ZS, Ciccarelli BT, Hung P, Williams E, Bartoszek R, Lavorando M, Mohan S, Gonzalez VE, Porazzi P, Bhoj VG, Apostolidis SA, Vogl DT, Porter DL, Scholler J, Diorio C, Roche AM, Everett JK, Bushman FD, Nathanson KL, Stadtmauer EA, Susanibar-Adaniya SP, Garfall AL, Ruella M, Cohen AD, Fraietta JA. CD4(+) T cells mediate CAR-T cell-associated immune-related adverse events after BCMA CAR-T cell therapy , Nat Med: 2026
Razzo BM, Midha S, Portuguese AJ, Grajales-Cruz AF, De Menezes Silva Corraes A, Costello P, Liu Y, Sperling AS, Nadeem O, Dima D, Banerjee R, Cowan AJ, Afrough A, Anderson LD, Lieberman-Cribbin A, Kaur G, Goyal A, Atrash S, Ferreri CJ, Voorhees PM, Pasvolsky O, Lee HC, Patel KK, Julian KL, Forsberg PA, Herr MM, Chhabra S, Parrondo RD, Lin Y, Chen A, Susanibar-Adaniya SP, Khouri J, Raza S, Anwer F, Vazquez-Martinez M, Castaneda Puglianini O, Sborov DW, Davis JA, Rossi A, Shune L, Bhurtel J, Hwang WT, Hansen DK, Sidana S, Garfall AL, Richard S. Real-World Experience with Teclistamab for Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma from the US Myeloma Immunotherapy Consortium , Blood Cancer Discov: 2025
Touzeau C, Krishnan AY, Moreau P, Perrot A, Usmani SZ, Manier S, Cavo M, Martinez Chamorro C, Nooka AK, Martin TG, Karlin L, Leleu X, Bahlis NJ, Besemer B, Pei L, Stein S, Wang Lin SX, Trancucci D, Verona R, Girgis S, Miao X, Uhlar C, Chastain K, Garfall A. Efficacy and safety of teclistamab in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma after BCMA-targeting therapies , Blood: 2024
Hasanali ZS, Garfall AL, Burzenski L, Shultz LD, Tang Y, Kadu S, Sheppard NC, Liu W, Dopkin D, Vogl DT, Cohen AD, Waxman AJ, Susanibar-Adaniya SP, Carroll M, Stadtmauer EA, Allman D. Human IL-6 fosters long-term engraftment of patient derived disease-driving myeloma cells in immunodeficient mice , JCI Insight: 2024
Garfall AL, Cohen AD, Susanibar-Adaniya SP, Hwang WT, Vogl DT, Waxman AJ, Lacey SF, Gonzalez VE, Fraietta JA, Gupta M, Kulikovskaya I, Tian L, Chen F, Koterba N, Bartoszek RL, Patchin M, Xu R, Plesa G, Siegel DL, Brennan A, Nelson AM, Ferthio R, Cosey A, Shea KM, Leskowitz R, Four M, Wilson WV, Miao F, Lancaster E, Carreno BM, Linette GP, Hexner EO, Young RM, Bu D, Mansfield KG, Brogdon JL, June CH, Milone MC, Stadtmauer EA. Anti-BCMA/CD19 CAR T cells with early immunomodulatory maintenance for multiple myeloma responding to initial or later-line therapy , Blood Cancer Discov, BCD(22): 2022,0074
Moreau P, Garfall AL, van de Donk NWCJ, Nahi H, San-Miguel JF, Oriol A, Nooka AK, Martin T, Rosinol L, Chari A, Karlin L, Benboubker L, Mateos MV, Bahlis N, Popat R, Besemer B, Martínez-López J, Sidana S, Delforge M, Pei L, Trancucci D, Verona R, Girgis S, Lin SXW, Olyslager Y, Jaffe M, Uhlar C, Stephenson T, Van Rampelbergh R, Banerjee A, Goldberg JD, Kobos R, Krishnan A, Usmani SZ. Teclistamab in Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma , N Engl J Med, 387(6): 2022,495-505
Garfall A, Dancy E, Cohen A, Wang WH, Frai J, Suhoski M, Levine B, Siegel D, Stadtmauer E, Vogl D, Waxman A, Rapoport A, Milone M, June C, Melehorst J T cell phenotypes associated with effective CAR T cell therapy in post-induction versus relapsed multiple myeloma , Blood Adv , 3(19): 2019 ,2812-2815
Cohen AD, Garfall AL, Stadtmauer EA, Melenhorst JJ, Lacey SF, Lancaster E, Vogl DT, Weiss BM, Dengel K, Nelson A, Plesa G, Chen F, Davis MM, Hwang WT, Young RM, Brogdon JL, Isaacs R, Pruteanu-Malinici I, Siegel DL, Levine BL, June CH, Milone MC B cell maturation antigen-specific CAR T cells are clinically active in multiple myeloma. , J Clin Invest , 129(6): 2019,2210-2221
Garfall AL, Maus MV, Hwang WT, Lacey SF, Mahnke YD, Melenhorst JJ, Zheng Z, Vogl DT, Cohen AD, Weiss BM, Dengel K, Kerr N D S, Bagg A, Levine BL, June CH, Stadtmauer EA Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells against CD19 for Multiple Myeloma. , The New England Journal of Medicine, 373(11): 2015,1040-7