Annapurna Saksena, MD, MBBS
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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Annapurna Saksena, MD, MBBS

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Pathology and Laboratory Medicine HUP
Headshot of Annapurna Saksena, MD, MBBS
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

My education and training

  • Pandit Bhagwat DayalMedical School
  • Pandit Bhagwat DayalResidency
  • Maulana Azad Medical College University of DelhiResidency
  • University Texas Health Science Center San AntonioResidency
  • National Cancer InstituteResidency
  • National Cancer InstituteFellowship

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.

Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Saksena is a Penn Medicine provider.

Qualifications and experience

All conditions and treatments

Research

Publications

Chandan Sanghera, Extended Authors List: Kusha Chopra, Kristiana Nasto, Josie Ford, Ruwan Gunaratne, Aliyah Sohani, Mark Sorial, Emma DeMarco, Alexandra Lenart, Maria J. Fernandez Turizo, Caroline MacVicar, Anna Rider, Corben Wong, Catherine Cho, Ryan Burke, Armando N. Bastidas Torres, Poorva Bindal, Sindha Thomas, Eric Jacobsen, Mwanasha H. Merrill, Yumeng Zhang, Xiaohui Zhang, Robert Willim, Michael Leukam, Jon Arnason, Valentina Nardi, Jia Ruan, Giorgio Inghirami, Jeffrey A. Barnes, Yi-Bin Chen, Steven McAfee, Ephraim Hochberg, Makoto Iwasaki, Khyati M. Kariya, Eric Minwei Liu, Riya Bhattacharjee, Xuan Cheng, David M. Kurtz, Shambhavi Singh, Ijeoma Julie Eche-Ugwu, Katrina Fu, Dhruv Mistry, Erica Lee, Emmanuel Nwodo, Grace Sun, Audrey Zhang, Govind Bhagat, Teresa Palomero, Meredith Nichols, Esther Rheinbay, Enrica Marchi, Stefan Barta, Carrie van der Weyden, Tatyana Feldman, Christina Poh, Basem William, Estelle Verburgh, Zainab Mohamed, Nathan Roberts, Danielle Blunt, Takashi Sakamoto, Fumiya Wada, Bradley Haverkos, Mitsumasa Watanabe, Nora Bennani, Claire Tiger, Jonathan Brammer, Pamela Allen, Deepa Jagadeesh, Maya Srinivasan, Mark Sloan, Lauren Shea, Harsh Shah, Sonali Smith, Nazila Shafagati, Bhagirathbhai Dholaria, Devavrat Shah, Wendy Lin, Chris Ryder, Annapurna Saksena, Michael Khodadoust, Salvia Jain Lineage-informed autograft T-cell MRD predicts relapse after autologous stem cell transplantation in peripheral T-cell lymphoma: Results from the PETAL Consortium , ASH Publications, Blood: 2026


Pichayut Nithagon, Annapurna Saksena Classic Hodgkin lymphoma showing interfollicular and intrasinusoidal involvement , ASH Publications, Blood, 148(10): 2026,1364


Annapurna Saksena, Christin Siewert, Rust Turakulov, Omkar Singh, Zied Abdullaev, Ting Zhou, Jeremiah Karrs, Joao Victor Alves De Castro, Deanna Riley, Shannon Skarshaug, Valerie Zgonc, Lana Sultanaeva, Ruifeng Teng, Liqiang Xi, Robert J. Kreitman, Andreas von Deimling, Martí Duran-Ferrer, José Ignacio Martín-Subero, Elias Campo, Benjamin Englert, Julia Richter, Wolfram Klapper, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Andreas Rosenwald, Marion Wobser, Falko Fend, Leticia Quintanilla-Martinez, Gerardo Ferrer, Manel Esteller, Miguel A. Piris, Michael Hummel, Stefania Pittaluga, Mark Raffeld, Elaine S. Jaffe, David Capper, Kenneth Aldape DNA methylation-based classification of hematolymphoid neoplasms , Blood Advances: 2026


First co-authors: Yoonhee Nam and Maria J. Fernandez Turizo; Extended Authors List: Chandan Sanghera, Kusha Chopra, Kristiana Nasto, Josie Ford, Ruwan Gunaratne, Aliyah Sohani, Mark Sorial, Emma DeMarco, Alexandra Lenart, Maria J. Fernandez Turizo, Caroline MacVicar, Anna Rider, Corben Wong, Catherine Cho, Ryan Burke, Armando N. Bastidas Torres, Poorva Bindal, Sindha Thomas, Eric Jacobsen, Mwanasha H. Merrill, Yumeng Zhang, Xiaohui Zhang, Robert Willim, Michael Leukam, Jon Arnason, Valentina Nardi, Jia Ruan, Giorgio Inghirami, Jeffrey A. Barnes, Yi-Bin Chen, Steven McAfee, Ephraim Hochberg, Makoto Iwasaki, Khyati M. Kariya, Eric Minwei Liu, Riya Bhattacharjee, Xuan Cheng, David M. Kurtz, Shambhavi Singh, Ijeoma Julie Eche-Ugwu, Katrina Fu, Dhruv Mistry, Erica Lee, Emmanuel Nwodo, Grace Sun, Audrey Zhang, Govind Bhagat, Teresa Palomero, Meredith Nichols, Esther Rheinbay, Enrica Marchi, Stefan Barta, Carrie van der Weyden, Tatyana Feldman, Christina Poh, Basem William, Estelle Verburgh, Zainab Mohamed, Nathan Roberts, Danielle Blunt, Takashi Sakamoto, Fumiya Wada, Bradley Haverkos, Mitsumasa Watanabe, Nora Bennani, Claire Tiger, Jonathan Brammer, Pamela Allen, Deepa Jagadeesh, Maya Srinivasan, Mark Sloan, Lauren Shea, Harsh Shah, Sonali Smith, Nazila Shafagati, Bhagirathbhai Dholaria, Devavrat Shah, Wendy Lin, Chris Ryder, Annapurna Saksena, Michael Khodadoust, Salvia Jain Multiomic profiling of extranodal NK/T-cell lymphomas reveals convergent JAK-STAT and PD-L1 co-activation, HLA class I evasion via allel-specific expression loss, and therapeutic vulnerability to combination co-inhibition: Results from the PETAL Consortium , ASH Publications, Blood: 2026


Makoto Iwansaki; Extended Authors List: Chandan Sanghera, Kusha Chopra, Kristiana Nasto, Josie Ford, Ruwan Gunaratne, Aliyah Sohani, Mark Sorial, Emma DeMarco, Alexandra Lenart, Maria J. Fernandez Turizo, Caroline MacVicar, Anna Rider, Corben Wong, Catherine Cho, Ryan Burke, Armando N. Bastidas Torres, Poorva Bindal, Sindha Thomas, Eric Jacobsen, Mwanasha H. Merrill, Yumeng Zhang, Xiaohui Zhang, Robert Willim, Michael Leukam, Jon Arnason, Valentina Nardi, Jia Ruan, Giorgio Inghirami, Jeffrey A. Barnes, Yi-Bin Chen, Steven McAfee, Ephraim Hochberg, Makoto Iwasaki, Khyati M. Kariya, Eric Minwei Liu, Riya Bhattacharjee, Xuan Cheng, David M. Kurtz, Shambhavi Singh, Ijeoma Julie Eche-Ugwu, Katrina Fu, Dhruv Mistry, Erica Lee, Emmanuel Nwodo, Grace Sun, Audrey Zhang, Govind Bhagat, Teresa Palomero, Meredith Nichols, Esther Rheinbay, Enrica Marchi, Stefan Barta, Carrie van der Weyden, Tatyana Feldman, Christina Poh, Basem William, Estelle Verburgh, Zainab Mohamed, Nathan Roberts, Danielle Blunt, Takashi Sakamoto, Fumiya Wada, Bradley Haverkos, Mitsumasa Watanabe, Nora Bennani, Claire Tiger, Jonathan Brammer, Pamela Allen, Deepa Jagadeesh, Maya Srinivasan, Mark Sloan, Lauren Shea, Harsh Shah, Sonali Smith, Nazila Shafagati, Bhagirathbhai Dholaria, Devavrat Shah, Wendy Lin, Chris Ryder, Annapurna Saksena, Michael Khodadoust, Salvia Jain A shared super-enhancer-driven IKZF1-BATF3-IRF4 circuit defines celmod-targetable vulnerability across mature T-and NK-cell lymphoma: Results from the PETAL Consortium , ASH Publications, Blood: 2026


First co-authors: Carrie Van Der Weyden and Mark Sorial; Extended Authors List: Chandan Sanghera, Kusha Chopra, Kristiana Nasto, Josie Ford, Ruwan Gunaratne, Aliyah Sohani, Mark Sorial, Emma DeMarco, Alexandra Lenart, Maria J. Fernandez Turizo, Caroline MacVicar, Anna Rider, Corben Wong, Catherine Cho, Ryan Burke, Armando N. Bastidas Torres, Poorva Bindal, Sindha Thomas, Eric Jacobsen, Mwanasha H. Merrill, Yumeng Zhang, Xiaohui Zhang, Robert Willim, Michael Leukam, Jon Arnason, Valentina Nardi, Jia Ruan, Giorgio Inghirami, Jeffrey A. Barnes, Yi-Bin Chen, Steven McAfee, Ephraim Hochberg, Makoto Iwasaki, Khyati M. Kariya, Eric Minwei Liu, Riya Bhattacharjee, Xuan Cheng, David M. Kurtz, Shambhavi Singh, Ijeoma Julie Eche-Ugwu, Katrina Fu, Dhruv Mistry, Erica Lee, Emmanuel Nwodo, Grace Sun, Audrey Zhang, Govind Bhagat, Teresa Palomero, Meredith Nichols, Esther Rheinbay, Enrica Marchi, Stefan Barta, Carrie van der Weyden, Tatyana Feldman, Christina Poh, Basem William, Estelle Verburgh, Zainab Mohamed, Nathan Roberts, Danielle Blunt, Takashi Sakamoto, Fumiya Wada, Bradley Haverkos, Mitsumasa Watanabe, Nora Bennani, Claire Tiger, Jonathan Brammer, Pamela Allen, Deepa Jagadeesh, Maya Srinivasan, Mark Sloan, Lauren Shea, Harsh Shah, Sonali Smith, Nazila Shafagati, Bhagirathbhai Dholaria, Devavrat Shah, Wendy Lin, Chris Ryder, Annapurna Saksena, Michael Khodadoust, Salvia Jain Comparative effectiveness of belionstat and romidepsin in relapsed/refractory nodal PTCL: Advanced statistical and machine learning analysis from the PETAL Consortium. , ASH Publications, Blood: 2026


First co-author: ljeoma Eche-Ugwu; Chandan Sanghera, Kusha Chopra, Kristiana Nasto, Josie Ford, Ruwan Gunaratne, Aliyah Sohani, Mark Sorial, Emma DeMarco, Alexandra Lenart, Maria J. Fernandez Turizo, Caroline MacVicar, Anna Rider, Corben Wong, Catherine Cho, Ryan Burke, Armando N. Bastidas Torres, Poorva Bindal, Sindha Thomas, Eric Jacobsen, Mwanasha H. Merrill, Yumeng Zhang, Xiaohui Zhang, Robert Willim, Michael Leukam, Jon Arnason, Valentina Nardi, Jia Ruan, Giorgio Inghirami, Jeffrey A. Barnes, Yi-Bin Chen, Steven McAfee, Ephraim Hochberg, Makoto Iwasaki, Khyati M. Kariya, Eric Minwei Liu, Riya Bhattacharjee, Xuan Cheng, David M. Kurtz, Shambhavi Singh, Ijeoma Julie Eche-Ugwu, Katrina Fu, Dhruv Mistry, Erica Lee, Emmanuel Nwodo, Grace Sun, Audrey Zhang, Govind Bhagat, Teresa Palomero, Meredith Nichols, Esther Rheinbay, Enrica Marchi, Stefan Barta, Carrie van der Weyden, Tatyana Feldman, Christina Poh, Basem William, Estelle Verburgh, Zainab Mohamed, Nathan Roberts, Danielle Blunt, Takashi Sakamoto, Fumiya Wada, Bradley Haverkos, Mitsumasa Watanabe, Nora Bennani, Claire Tiger, Jonathan Brammer, Pamela Allen, Deepa Jagadeesh, Maya Srinivasan, Mark Sloan, Lauren Shea, Harsh Shah, Sonali Smith, Nazila Shafagati, Bhagirathbhai Dholaria, Devavrat Shah, Wendy Lin, Chris Ryder, Annapurna Saksena, Michael Khodadoust, Salvia Jain Distress is associated with inferior pre-treatment health-related quality of life among patients with PTCL: A cross-sectional analysis from the PETAL Consortium. , ASH Publications, Blood: 2026


Julia Wang, Annapurna Saksena DNA methylation-based profiling in B-cell lymphomas , Advances in Molecular Pathology, 8(1): 2025,p41-52


Julia Wang, Annapurna Saksena Distinctive morphologic finding of multifocal perifollicular concentric granulomas in a lymph node with IgG4 plasmacytosis , Blood, 145(9): 2025,993


Li Xingchen, Devi P, Saksena A A Rare Case of Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma Co-occurring with Small Lymphocytic Leukemia: De Novo Process or Richter's Syndrome? , American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 162(Supplement_1): 2024,S77-S78