Annapurna Saksena, MD, MBBS
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Pathology and Laboratory Medicine HUP
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.
- 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)
- 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
- Devoted Health Choice Giveback Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Plus Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Core Pennsylvania (HMO)
- Devoted Health Dual Plus Pennsylvania (HMO D-SNP)
- Devoted Health Giveback Pennsylvania (HMO)
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
- Pathology - Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, 2020
- Pathology, 2021
- College of American Pathologists (CAP), International
- Society of Hematopathology, International
- The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP), National
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