Mark Anthony Sellmyer, MD, PHD
Radiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Director of the PET Center
- Co-Director of the Center for Translational Chemical Biology
- Gerd Muehllehner Associate Professor of Radiology
- Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
My education and training
- Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine
- Residency: Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
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)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Amerihealth of NJ Core
- Amerihealth of NJ Enhanced
- Amerihealth of NJ HMO
- Amerihealth of NJ Local Value
- Amerihealth of NJ POS
- Amerihealth of NJ PPO
- Amerihealth of NJ Regional Preferred
- Amerihealth of NJ Secure
- Amerihealth of NJ Ultimate (PPO)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Chester County Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Diagnostic Radiology, 2018
- Nuclear Radiology, 2018
- American Association of Cancer Research, National
- American Chemical Society, National
- American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT), National
- Association of University Radiologists (AUR), National
- Board of Trustees, World Molecular Imaging Society (elected 2025), International
- Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), National
- Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), International
- World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIC), International
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Lee, I. K., Sharma, N., Noguera-Ortega, E., Liousia, M., Baroja, M. L., Etersque, J. M., Pham, J., Sarkar, S., Carreno, B. M., Linette, G. P., Pure, E., Albelda, S. M., Sellmyer, M. A. A genetically encoded protein tag for control and quantitative imaging of CAR T cell therapy , Mol Ther, 31(12): 2023,3564-3578
Etersque, J. M., Lee, I. K., Sharma, N., Xu, K., Ruff, A., Northrup, J. D., Sarkar, S., Nguyen, T., Lauman, R., Burslem, G. M., Sellmyer, M. A. Regulation of eDHFR-tagged proteins with trimethoprim PROTACs , Nat Commun, 14(1): 2023,7071
Lee IK, Noguera-Ortega E, Xiao Z, Todd L, Scholler J, Song D, Liousia M, Lohith K, Xu K, Edwards KJ, Farwell MD, June CH, Albelda SM, Puré E, Sellmyer MA Monitoring Therapeutic Response to Anti-FAP CAR T Cells Using [18F]AlF-FAPI-74 , Clin Cancer Res, 28(24): 2022,5330-5342
Edwards KJ, Chang B, Babazada H, Lohith K, Park DH, Farwell MD, Sellmyer MA Using CD69 PET Imaging to Monitor Immunotherapy-Induced Immune Activation , Cancer Immunol Res, 10(9): 2022,1084-1094
Iris K Lee, Daniel A Jacome, Joshua K Cho, Vincent Tu, Anthony J Young, Tiffany Dominguez, Justin D Northrup, Jean M Etersque, Hsiaoju S Lee, Andrew Ruff, Ouniol Aklilu, Kyle Bittinger, Laurel J Glaser, Daniel Dorgan, Denis Hadjiliadis, Rahul M Kohli, Robert H Mach, David A Mankoff, Robert K Doot, Mark A Sellmyer Imaging sensitive and drug-resistant bacterial infection with [11C]-trimethoprim , The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 132(18): 2023,e156679
Mankoff DA, Sellmyer MA PET of Fibroblast-Activation Protein for Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Staging , Radiology, 302(1): 2022,48-49
Mark A Sellmyer, Iris K Lee, David A Mankoff Building the bridge: molecular imaging biomarkers for 21st century cancer therapies , Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 62(12): 2021,1672–6
Jacome, D. A., Northrup, J. D., Ruff, A. J., Reilly, S. W., Lee, I. K., Blizard, G. S., Sellmyer, M. A. A Chemical Approach for Programmable Protein Outputs Based on Engineered Cell Interactions , ACS Chem Biol, 16(1): 2021,52-57
Sellmyer Mark A, Richman Sarah A, Lohith Katheryn, Hou Catherine, Weng Chi-Chang, Mach Robert H, O'Connor Roddy S, Milone Michael C, Farwell Michael D Imaging CAR T Cell Trafficking with eDHFR as a PET Reporter Gene. , Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 28(1): 2020,42-51