Michael C. Milone, MD, PhD
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Pathology and Laboratory Medicine HUP
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Associate Director, Toxicology Laboratory
- Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My clinical expertise is in Clinical Laboratory Toxicology, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Clinical Chemistry, Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine, Therapeutic Apheresis.
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Pathology - Clinical
- American Association of Clinical Chemistry, National
- American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, National
- American Society of Hematology, International
- College of American Pathologists, National
- International Association of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology, International
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Frazee CS, Chen S, Berry CT, Lee CS, Banciella RA, Ngo L, Shon D, Herman PJ, Fischman JS, Leff CL, Chen A, Kuo Y, Shestov AA, Kelly AR, Valentic B, Milone MC, O'Connor RS, Ellebrecht CT. Fate induction through asymmetric T cell division is modulated by chimeric antigen receptor costimulatory domains , Nat Immunol: 2026
Liu, S., Guruprasad, P., Ramasubramanian, R., Madhu, B., Paruzzo, L., Han, K., Kelly, A., Shestov, A., Xu, H. N., Carturan, A., Zhou, C., Amses, K. R., Afriat, A., Litichevskiy, L., Lin, J., Dubowitz, E., Tangal, N., Zhang, J., McSween, A., Tan, M., Stella, F., Lee, A., Nason, S., Hua, X., Schneider, M., Sleeman, M., Zhang, Y., Gabrielli, G., Yang, Z., Pajarillo, R., Patel, R., Ghilardi, G., Patel, V., Joshi, A., Jiang, S., Jiang, Y., Porazzi, P., Tchou, J. C., Keith, B., Li, M., Chong, E., Schuster, S. J., Milone, M., Rabinowitz, J., O'Connor, R. S., Thaiss, C. A., Levy, M., Ruella, M. β-hydroxybutyrate enhances the metabolic fitness of CAR T cells in cancer , Cell: 2026
Engel NW, Steinfeld I, Ryan D, Anupindi K, Kim S, Wellhausen N, Chen L, Wilkins K, Baker DJ, Rommel PC, Jarocha D, Gohil M, Zhang Q, Milone MC, Fraietta JA, Davis M, Young RM, June CH. Quadruple adenine base-edited allogeneic CAR T cells outperform CRISPR/Cas9 nuclease-engineered T cells , Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 122: 2025,e2427216122
Balis FM, Rieger E, Bunin NJ, Gardiner J, Shaw LM, Olson TS, Milone MC. New approach to busulfan dosing in infants and children based on a population pharmacokinetic analysis , Cancer Chemother Pharmacol, 95: 2025,32
Zhang, Qian, Wu, Yihao, Yang, Jingyi, Zhou, Kevin, Anand Manoharan, Eric Nigel Ebenezer, Wentz, Tyra, Su, Leon, Yu, Alvin, Wang, Hong-Yi, Bruhn, Laurakay, Steinfeld, Israel, Gonzalez, Nicolas, Song, Edward Z., Zhang, Yunlin, Hresko, Morgan E., Ryan, Daniel E., Engel, Nils W., Nunez-Cruz, Selene, June, Carl H., Garcia, K. Christopher, Milone, Michael C. Viral vector-free generation of orthogonal IL-2–responsive CAR T cells through gene editing of IL-2 and its receptor , Blood Immunology & Cellular Therapy, 1(3): 2025
Ghilardi, G., Paruzzo, L., Svoboda, J., Chong, E. A., Shestov, A. A., Chen, L., Cohen, I. J., Gabrielli, G., Nasta, S. D., Porazzi, P., Landsburg, D. J., Gerson, J. N., Carter, J., Barta, S. K., Yelton, R., Pajarillo, R., Patel, V., White, G., Ballard, H. J., Weber, E., Napier, E., Chong, E. R., Fraietta, J. A., Garfall, A. L., Porter, D. L., Milone, M. C., O'Connor, R., Schuster, S. J., Ruella, M. Bendamustine lymphodepletion before axicabtagene ciloleucel is safe and associates with reduced inflammatory cytokines , Blood Adv, 8(3): 2024,653-666
Zhang Z, Markmann C, Yu M, Agarwal D, Rostami S, Wang W, Liu C, Zhao H, Ochoa T, Parvathaneni K, Xu X, Li E, Gonzalez V, Khadka R, Hoffmann J, Knox JJ, Scholler J, Marcellus B, Allman D, Fraietta JA, Samelson-Jones B, Milone MC, Monos D, Garfall AL, Naji A, Bhoj VG. Immunotherapy targeting B cells and long-lived plasma cells effectively eliminates pre-existing donor-specific allo-antibodies , Cell Rep Med, 4: 2023,101336
Grover P, Nunez-Cruz S, Leferovich J, Wentz T, Bagchi A, Milone MC, Greene MI. F77 antigen is a promising target for adoptive T cell therapy of prostate cancer , Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 680: 2023,51-60
Oh S, Mao X, Manfredo-Vieira S, Lee J, Patel D, Choi EJ, Alvarado A, Cottman-Thomas E, Maseda D, Tsao PY, Ellebrecht CT, Khella SL, Richman DP, O'Connor KC, Herzberg U, Binder GK, Milone MC, Basu S, Payne AS. Precision targeting of autoantigen-specific B cells in muscle-specific tyrosine kinase myasthenia gravis with chimeric autoantibody receptor T cells , Nat Biotechnol, 41(9): 2023,1229-1238
Glisovic-Aplenc, T., Diorio, C., Chukinas, J. A., Veliz, K., Shestova, O., Shen, F., Nunez-Cruz, S., Vincent, T. L., Miao, F., Milone, M. C., June, C. H., Teachey, D. T., Tasian, S. K., Aplenc, R., Gill, S. CD38 as a pan-hematologic target for chimeric antigen receptor T cells , Blood Adv, 7(16): 2023,4418-4430