- Acute leukemia
- Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
- Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML)
- Essential thrombocytopenia (ET)
- Leukemia
- Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
- Myelofibrosis
- Polycythemia vera
- Systemic mastocytosis
Elizabeth Hexner, MD, MSTR
About me
- Medical Director, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies
- Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Medical School: Columbia University
- Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
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Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Hematology, 2005
- American Society of Hematology, International
- American Society of Hematology, International
- American Society of Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, International
- Blueprint Medicines, International
- Bone Marrow Transplantation Clinical Trials Network (BTM CTN), National
- Cabaletta Bio, National
- Food and Drug Association, National
- International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy, International
- Racing to Register, National
- Penn Bone Marrow Transplant and Stem Cell Transplant Program
- Penn Cellular Therapy and Transplant Program
- Penn Hematological Malignancies (Blood Cancer) Program
- Penn Leukemia Program
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
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, 34(5): 2026,2653-2665
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, 10(10): 2026,3676-3689
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, 10(8): 2026,2676-2686
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, 10(4): 2026,803-814
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,rs.3.rs-8436008.
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
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, 39(12): 2025,2862-2865
Bagley, S. J., Desai, A. S., Fraietta, J. A., Silverbush, D., Chafamo, D., Freeburg, N. F., Gopikrishna, G. K., Rech, A. J., Nabavizadeh, A., Bagley, L. J., Park, J., Jarocha, D., Martins, R., Sarmiento, N., Maloney, E., Lledo, L., Stein, C., Marshall, A., Leskowitz, R. M., Jadlowsky, J. K., Mackey, S., Christensen, S., Oner, B. S., Plesa, G., Brennan, A., Gonzalez, V., Chen, F., Barrett, D., Colbourn, R., Nasrallah, M. P., Mourelatos, Z., Hwang, W. T., Alanio, C., Siegel, D. L., June, C. H., Hexner, E. O., Binder, Z. A., O'Rourke, D. M. Author Correction: Intracerebroventricular bivalent CAR T cells targeting EGFR and IL-13Ralpha2 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.
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.