Penn Medicine Provider
Jonathan A. Epstein, MD
Sees patients age 18 and up

About me

  • Interim Executive Vice President and Dean of the Perelman School of Medicine
  • The Robert G. Dunlop Professor
  • Professor of Medicine in Cell and Developmental Biology

My Locations

Qualifications and experience

My research

CAR T cells produced in vivo to treat cardiac injury. Rurik, J.G., Tombácz, I., Yadegari, A., Méndez Fernández, P.O., Shewale, S.V., Kimura, T., Younoss, Soliman, O., Papp, T.E., Tam, Y.K., Mui, B.L., Albelda, S.M., Pure, E., June, C.H., Aghajanian, H., Weissman, D. Parhiz, H., Epstein, J.A. , Science, 7(375): 2022


Bourque, J., Opejin, A., Surnov, A., Iberg, C.A., Gross, C., Jain, R., Epstein, J.A., Hawiger, D., Heliyon. Landscape of Hopx expression in cells of the immune system. , Heliyon, 7(11): 2021


Jain, R., Epstein JA. Not all stress is bad for your heart. , Science, 375(6565): 2021


Smith, C.L., Lan, Y., Jain, R., Epstein, J.A., Poleshko, A. Global chromatin relabeling accompanies spatial inversion of chromatin in rod photoreceptors. , Sci Adv., 7(39): 2021


Oakes, A.H., Epstein, J.A., Ganguly, A., Park, S., Evans, C.N., Patel, M.S. Effect of Opt-In vs Opt-Out Framing on Enrollment in a COVID-19 Surveillance Testing Program: The COVID SAFE Randomized Clinical Trial. , JAMA Network Open., 4(6): 2021


Kiseleva, A.A., Troisi, E.M., Hensley, S.E., Kohli, R.M., Epstein, J.A. SARS-CoV-2 spike protein binding selectively accelerates substrate-specific catalytic activity of ACE2. , The Journal of Biochemistry: 2021


Oakes, A.H., Epstein, J.A., Ganguly, A., Bushman, F.D., Haubein, N.C., Sevinc, C., Fendrich, S., Oon, A.L., Parambath, A., Clark, K., Evans, C.N., Patel, M.S. Covid SAFE: Rapid Implementation of a Saliva-Based SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance Testing Program with Automated Scheduling and Reporting. , NEJM Catalyst., 2(3): 2021


Smith, C.L., Poleshko, A., Epstein, J.A. The nuclear periphery is a scaffold for tissue-specific enhancers. , Nucleic Acids Res., 49: 2021


See, K., Kiseleva, A.A., Smith, C.L., Liu, F., Li, J., Poleshko, A., Epstein, J.A. Histone methyltransferase activity programs nuclear peripheral genome positioning , Dev Biol, 466(1-2): 2020,90-98


Jang, J., Engleka, K.A., Liu, F. Li, L., Song, G., Epstein, J.A., Li, D. An engineered mouse to identify proliferating cells and their derivatives. , Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, section Cell Growth and Division., 25(8): 2020,388


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