- Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
- Double hit lymphoma
- Follicular lymphoma
- Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Lymphoma
- MALT lymphoma
- Nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Triple hit lymphoma
Jakub Svoboda, MD
About me
- Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
Reviews
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Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Medical Oncology, 2006
- American College of Physicians, National
- American Society of Clinical Oncology, National
- American Society of Hematology, National
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network, National
- North American Hodgkin Lymphoma Consortium, National
- Penn Bone Marrow Transplant and Stem Cell Transplant Program
- Penn Cellular Therapy and Transplant Program
- Penn Hematological Malignancies (Blood Cancer) Program
- Penn Lymphoma Program
- Recognized annually in Philadelphia Magazine's Top Docs issue from 2018 through 2025
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Jakub Svoboda, Daniel J Landsburg, James Gerson, Sunita D Nasta, Stefan K Barta, Elise A Chong, Michael Cook, Noelle V Frey, Joanne Shea, Amanda Cervini, Amy Marshall, Megan Four, Megan M Davis, Julie K Jadlowsky, Anne Chew, Edward Pequignot, Vanessa Gonzalez, Julia Han Noll, Luca Paruzzo, Juliana Rojas-Levine, Gabriela Plesa, John Scholler, Donald L Siegel, Bruce L Levine, David L Porter, Saba Ghassemi, Marco Ruella, Andrew Rech, Rachel M Leskowitz, Joseph A Fraietta, Wei-Ting Hwang, Elizabeth Hexner, Stephen J Schuster, Carl H June Enhanced CAR T-cell therapy for lymphoma after previous failure , New England Journal of Medicine, 392(18): 2025,1824-1835
Jakub Svoboda, Steven M Bair, Daniel J Landsburg, Sunita Dwivedy Nasta, Sarah J Nagle, Stefan K Barta, Nadia Khan, Joanne Filicko-O'Hara, Sameh Gaballa, Lauren Strelec, Elise Chong, Sheryl Mitnick, Terease S Waite, Cara King, Hatcher Ballard, Matthew Youngman, James Gerson, John P Plastaras, Amit Maity, Agata M Bogusz, Stacy S Hung, Hisae Nakamura, Reza Nejati, Christian Steidl, Megan Lim, Marco Ruella, Stephen J Schuster Brentuximab vedotin in combination with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and prednisone as frontline treatment for patients with CD30-positive B-cell lymphomas , Haematologica, 106(6): 2021,1705 -1713
Schuster SJ, Svoboda J, Chong EA, Nasta SD, Mato AR, Anak Ö, Brogdon JL, Pruteanu-Malinici I, Bhoj V, Landsburg D, Wasik M, Levine BL, Lacey SF, Melenhorst JJ, Porter DL, June CH. Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells in Refractory B-Cell Lymphomas , New England Journal of Medicine, 377(26): 2017,2545-2554
Svoboda J, Rheingold SR, Gill SI, Grupp SA, Lacey SF, Kulikovskaya I, Suhoski MM, Melenhorst JJ, Loudon B, Mato AR, Nasta SD, Landsburg DJ, Youngman MR, Levine BL, Porter DL, June CH, Schuster SJ. Non-viral RNA chimeric antigen receptor modified T cells in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma. , Blood, 132(10): 2018,1022-1026
Jackson T. Bowers, Jacob Anna, Steven M. Bair, Kaitlin Annunzio, Narendranath Epperla, Jerrin Joy Pullukkara, Sameh Gaballa, Michael A. Spinner, Shuning Li, Marcus R. Messmer, Joseph Nguyen, Emily C. Ayers, Charlotte B. Wagner, Boyu Hu, Mengyang Di, Scott F. Huntington, Fateeha Furqan, Nirav N. Shah, Christina Chen, Hatcher J. Ballard, Mitchell E. Hughes, Elise A. Chong, Sunita D. Nasta, Stefan K. Barta, Daniel J. Landsburg, Jakub Svoboda Brentuximab vedotin plus AVD for Hodgkin lymphoma: incidence and management of peripheral neuropathy in a multisite cohort , Blood Advances, 7(21): 2023,6630–6638
Ruan J, Martin P, Shah B, Schuster SJ, Smith, SM, Furman RR, Christos P, Rodriguez A, Svoboda J, Lewis J, Katz O, Coleman M, Leonard, JP Lenalidomide Plus Rituximab as Initial Treatment for Mantle Cell Lymphoma. , New England Journal of Medicine, 373(19): 2015,1835-44
Julie K Jadlowsky, Elizabeth O Hexner, Amy Marshall, Stephan A Grupp, Noelle V Frey, James L Riley, Elizabeth Veloso, Holly McConville, Walter Rogal, Cory Czuczman, Wei-Ting Hwang, Yimei Li, Rachel M Leskowitz, Olivia Farrelly, Jayashree Karar, Shannon Christensen, Julie Barber-Rotenberg, Avery Gaymon, Naomi Aronson, Wendy Bernstein, Jan Joseph Melenhorst, Aoife M Roche, John K Everett, Sonja A Zolnoski, Alexander G McFarland, Shantan Reddy, Angelina Petrichenko, Emma J Cook, Carole Lee, Vanessa E Gonzalez, Kathleen Alexander, Irina Kulikovskaya, Ángel Ramírez-Fernández, Janna C Minehart, Marco Ruella, Saar I Gill, Stephen J Schuster, Adam D Cohen, Alfred L Garfall, Payal D Shah, David L Porter, Shannon L Maude, Bruce L Levine, Donald L Siegel, Anne Chew, Stephen McKenna, Lester Lledo, Megan M Davis, Gabriela Plesa, Friederike Herbst, Edward A Stadtmauer, Pablo Tebas, Amanda DiNofia, Andrew Haas, Naomi B Haas, Regina Myers, Donald M O’Rourke, Jakub Svoboda, Janos L Tanyi, Richard Aplenc, Jeffrey M Jacobson, Andrew H Ko, Roger B Cohen, Carl H June, Frederic D Bushman, Joseph A Fraietta Long-term safety of lentiviral or gammaretroviral gene-modified T cell therapies , Nature Medicine, 31(4): 2025,1134-1144
G Ghilardi, EA Chong, J Svoboda, P Wohlfarth, SD Nasta, S Williamson, JD Landsburg, JN Gerson, SK Barta, R Pajarillo, J Myers, AI Chen, L Schachter, R Yelton, HJ Ballard, A Hodges Dwinal, S Gier, D Victoriano, E Weber, E Napier, A Garfall, DL Porter, U Jäger, RT Maziarz, M Ruella, SJ Schuster Bendamustine is Safe and Effective for Lymphodepletion Before Tisagenlecleucel in Patients with Refractory or Relapsed Large B-Cell Lymphomas , Annals of Oncology, 33(9): 2022,916-928
Elise A Chong, Cécile Alanio, Jakub Svoboda, Sunita D Nasta, Daniel J Landsburg, Simon F Lacey, Marco Ruella, Siddharth Bhattacharyya, E John Wherry, Stephen J Schuster Pembrolizumab for B-cell lymphomas relapsing after or refractory to CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy , Blood, 139(7): 2022,1026-1038
P Armand, S Rodig, V Melnichenko, C Thieblemont, K Bouabdallah, G Tumyan, M Özcan, S Portino, L Fogliatto, MD Caballero, J Walewski, Z Gulbas, V Ribrag, B Christian, GF Perini, G Salles, J Svoboda, J Zain, S Patel, PH Chen, AH Ligon, J Ouyang, D Neuberg, R Redd, A Chatterjee, A Balakumaran, R Orlowski, M Shipp, and PL Zinzani Pembrolizumab in Relapsed or Refractory Primary Mediastinal Large B-Cell Lymphoma , J Clin Oncol., 37(34): 2019,3291-3299