Michael C. Milone, MD, PhD

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Pathology and Laboratory Medicine HUP
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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.

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.
Dr. Milone is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Bhoj VG, Kaminski M, Zhao H, Jackson K, Wang W, Liu C, Montgomery RA, Ali N, Mangiola M, Spitzer TR, Safa K, Pattanayak V, Taj R, Chiu J, Bui TM, Sonnenberg EM, Markmann JF, Milone MC, June CH, Siegel DL, Fraietta JA, Gonzalez V, Locci M, Palmer M, Monos D, Hwang WT, Sledge T, Bridges ND, Goldstein JS, Odim J, Sweet SC, Besharatian BD, Hussain SM, Brown NK, Kamoun M, Garfall AL, Naji A. Kidney Transplantation in Two Highly Sensitized Candidates after CAR T-Cell Therapy , N Engl J Med, 394: 2026,2117-2125


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


Gu M, Read KA, Bhardwaj V, Carvalho EJ, Nardo D, Shayne JC, Shukla D, Liu W, Siegel DL, Sheppard NC, Milone MC, Cohen AD, Garfall AL, Riley JL. Rab5 improves CAR T cell efficacy via reducing fratricide and maintaining surface CAR levels , J Exp Med, 223: 2026,e20252564


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


Zhang Q, Wu Y, Yang J, Zhou K, Manoharan ENEA, Wentz T, Su L, Yu A, Wang HY, Bruhn L, Steinfeld I, Gonzalez N, Song EZ, Zhang Y, Hresko ME, Ryan DE, Engel NW, Nunez-Cruz S, June CH, Garcia KC, Milone MC. Viral vector-free generation of orthogonal IL-2-responsive CAR T cells through gene editing of IL-2 and its receptor , Blood Immunol Cell Ther: 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


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