Elizabeth Hexner, MD, MSTR
Hematology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Abramson Cancer Center Perelman 4th Floor West
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Medical Director, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies
  • Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Education and training

  • Medical School: Columbia University
  • Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
  • Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System

What my patients think about me

Average Rating

347 reviews

Comments are submitted by patients and reflect their views and opinions. The comments are not endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of Penn Medicine.

February 2026
Dr. Hexner is both professional and personable. top shelf.
February 2026
doctor has a patient friendly approach
January 2026
one on one visit
January 2026
her knowledge, and her ability to explain things patiently

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My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Hexner is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Xu, J., McCoy, M., Martinez, Z., Sussman, J. H., Gao, D., Vincent, T. L., Wang, H., Ma, C., Elghawy, O., Chen, G. M., Yang, A. G., Polonen, P., Natan, K., Shraim, R., Newman, H., Hofmann, T. J., Scoma, S., DiNofia, A. M., Hunger, S. P., Yang, J. J., Mullighan, C. G., Bernt, K. M., Hexner, E. O., Grupp, S. A., Watanabe, K., June, C. H., Tan, K., Teachey, D. T., Diorio, C. CCR4 expression defines a targetable subset of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia , Blood Adv: 2026


Louloudis, I. E., Chen, Y. B., Spyrou, N., Alousi, A., Katsivelos, N., Ayuk, F., Weber, D., Hogan, W. J., Etra, A. M., Qayed, M., Aguayo-Hiraldo, P., Akahoshi, Y., Malki, M. M. A., Bolanos-Meade, J., Chanswangphuwana, C., Diniz, M., Eder, M., Hexner, E., Kitko, C. L., Kraus, S., Merli, P., Olson, T., MacMillan, M. L., Pidala, J., Reshef, R., Schechter, T., Wolfl, M., Baez, J., Eng, G., Gleich, S., Young, R., Nakamura, R., Ferrara, J. L. M., Levine, J. E. Performance of Treatment Response Assessment at Day 7 by Baseline Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease Severity , Transplant Cell Ther, 32(1): 2026,63 e1-63 e11


Gotlib, J., Reiter, A., Radia, D. H., Alvarez-Twose, I., Deininger, M. W., George, T. I., Panse, J. P., Mital, A., Pettit, K. M., Vannucchi, A. M., Platzbecker, U., Hermine, O., Elshoury, A., Livideanu, C., Mesa, R. A., Ustun, C., Triggiani, M., Dybedal, I., Jurcic, J. G., Zanotti, R., Oh, S. T., Yacoub, A., Hexner, E. O., Bose, P., Lee, S. G., Sperr, W. R., Griffiths, E. A., Butler, M., Lubke, J., Bidollari, I., Lin, H. M., Rylova, S. N., Dimitrijevic, S., Munoz-Gonzalez, J. I., DeAngelo, D. J. Efficacy and safety of avapritinib in advanced systemic mastocytosis: 4-year follow-up of the PATHFINDER study , Blood Adv: 2026


Deng, M. Z., Sinha, T., Lai, M., Jiang, S., Kong, H., Cooper, V., Gu, M., Perelman, J., Zhang, C., Hanindya, C., Carpio, V., Keller, P., Jadlowsky, J. K., Leskowitz, R., McKenna, S., Four, M., Barranco, J. A. J., Cooper, N., Jain, A., Haines, K., Gohil, M., Garcia-Gerique, L., Russell, A., Kulikovskaya, I., Gonzalez, V., Fraietta, J. A., Plesa, G., Sheppard, N. C., Davis, M. M., Chew, A., Hexner, E., Frey, N., June, C. H., Svoboda, J., Riley, J. L. Cell-derived Nanoparticles Provide a Robust Platform to Manufacture Therapeutic T cells , Res Sq: 2026


Chen, G. M., Jain, A., Gering, D. T., Satulovsky, J., Datta, S., Lai, P., Karar, J., Gonzalez, V. E., Alexander, K., Chew, A., Jadlowsky, J. K., Ruella, M., Paruzzo, L., Amses, K. R., Rech, A. J., Stadtmauer, E. A., Frey, N. V., Hexner, E. O., Porter, D. L., Cohen, A. D., Gill, S. I., Garfall, A. L., Schuster, S. J., Mo, K. C., Liang, S. I., Spasic, M., Levine, B. L., Siegel, D. L., Ramirez-Fernandez, A., Cabanski, C. R., Yang, E., Mackall, C. L., Bushman, F. D., Good, Z., John Wherry, E., June, C. H., Fraietta, J. A. Predictive biomarkers of response to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for pan-haematologic cancer , Nat Biomed Eng: 2026


Barber-Rotenberg, J. S., Haas, A. R., Aggarwal, C., O'Hara, M., Hexner, E., Pequignot, E., Dowd, E., Ndeupen, S., Thai, E., Chen, F., Oner, B. S., Czuczman, C., Gonzalez, V. E., Fraietta, J. A., Hwang, W. T., Chew, A., Jadlowsky, J. K., Marshall, A., Shea, K. M., Jiang, Y., Cosey, A., Ferthio, R., Levine, B. L., Plesa, G., Siegel, D. L., Young, R. M., Sheppard, N. C., Albelda, S. M., June, C. H., Tanyi, J. L. Phase 1 study of autologous T cells bearing fully human chimeric antigen receptors targeting mesothelin in mesothelin-expressing cancers , Mol Ther: 2026


Salit RB, Hexner EO, Gagelmann N, Kröger N, McLornan DP, Jain T, Gupta V, Hobbs GS, Tamari R, Robin M, Scott B, Saber W Defining remission following hematopoietic cell transplant for myelofibrosis: an international expert panel consensus , Leukemia: 2025


Aznar MA, Good CR, Barber-Rotenberg JS, Agarwal S, Wilson W, Watts A, Zhang Z, Gonzales D, Donahue G, Hwang WT, Rennels AK, Rech AJ, Kuramitsu S, Huang H, Glastad KM, Alexander KA, Plesa G, Dowd E, Brennan A, Siegel DL, Tanyi J, Haas A, Torigian DA, Nadolski G, Gonzalez VE, Hexner EO, Fraietta JA, Jadlowsky JK, Young RM, Berger SL, June CH, O'Hara MH Clinical and molecular dissection of CAR T cell resistance in pancreatic cancer , Cell Rep Med, 6(9): 2025,102301.


Bagley SJ, Desai AS, Fraietta JA, Silverbush D, Chafamo D, Freeburg NF, Gopikrishna GK, Rech AJ, Nabavizadeh A, Bagley LJ, Park J, Jarocha D, Martins R, Sarmiento N, Maloney E, Lledo L, Stein C, Marshall A, Leskowitz RM, Jadlowsky JK, Mackey S, Christensen S, Oner BS, Plesa G, Brennan A, Gonzalez V, Chen F, Barrett D, Colbourn R, Nasrallah MP, Mourelatos Z, Hwang WT, Alanio C, Siegel DL, June CH, Hexner EO, Binder ZA, O'Rourke DM. Author Correction: Intracerebroventricular bivalent CAR T cells targeting EGFR and IL-13Rα2 in recurrent glioblastoma: a phase 1 trial , Nat Med, 31(9): 2025,3205


Akahoshi Y, Inamoto Y, Spyrou N, Nakasone H, Diniz M, Asada N, Ayuk FA, Choe HK, Doki N, Eto T, Etra AM, Hexner EO, Hiramoto N, Hogan WJ, Holler EPDm, Kataoka K, Kawakita T, Tanaka M, Tanaka T, Uchida N, Vasova I, Yoshihara S, Ishimaru F, Fukuda T, Chen YB, Kanda J, Nakamura R, Atsuta Y, Ferrara JLM, Kanda Y, Levine JE, Teshima T. Refinement of Day 28 Treatment Response Criteria for Acute GVHD: A Collaboration Study of the JSTCT and MAGIC , Blood Adv. , 9(18): 2025,4640-4653.