Penn Medicine Provider
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Priti Lal, MD
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Pathology and Laboratory Medicine HUP

About me

  • Director, Genitourinary Pathology Service, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

My clinical expertise is in GU pathology.

Education and training

  • Medical School: Maulana Azad Medical College University of Delhi
  • Residency: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
  • Fellowship: National Institutes of Health
  • Fellowship: Armed Forces Institute
  • Fellowship: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Insurance accepted

My 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. Lal is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Vivek Narayan, Julie S. Barber-Rotenberg, In-Young Jung, Simon F. Lacey, Andrew J. Rech, Megan M. Davis, Wei-Ting Hwang, Priti Lal, Erica L. Carpenter, Shannon L. Maude, Gabriela Plesa, Neha Vapiwala, Anne Chew, Michael Moniak, Ronnie A. Sebro, Michael D. Farwell, Amy Marshall, Joan Gilmore, Lester Lledo, Karen Dengel, Sarah E. Church, Tyler D. Hether, Jun Xu, Mercy Gohil, Thomas H. Buckingham, Stephanie S. Yee, Vanessa E. Gonzalez, Irina Kulikovskaya, Fang Chen, Lifeng Tian, Kyle Tien, Whitney Gladney, Christopher L. Nobles, Hayley E. Raymond, Prostate Cancer Cellular Therapy Program Investigators, Elizabeth O. Hexner, Donald L. Siegel, Frederic D. Bushman, Carl H. June, Joseph A. Fraietta & Naomi B. Haas PSMA-targeting TGFβ-insensitive armored CAR T cells in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: a phase 1 trial , Nature Medicine, 4(28): 2022,724-734


Yamoah K, Johnson MH, Choeurng V, Faisal FA, Yousefi K, Haddad Z, Ross AE, Alshalafa M, Den R, Lal Priti, Feldman M, Dicker AP, Klein EA, Davicioni E, Rebbeck TR, Schaeffer EM Novel Biomarker Signature That May Predict Aggressive Disease in African American Men With Prostate Cancer , J Clin Oncol, 33(25): 2015,2789-96


Vaughn DJ, Hwang WT, Lal Priti, Rosen MA, Gallagher M, O'Dwyer PJ Phase 2 trial of the cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 inhibitor palbociclib in patients with retinoblastoma protein-expressing germ cell tumors , Cancer, 121(9): 2015,1463-8


Garg R, Blando JM, Perez CJ, Lal Priti, Feldman MD, Smyth EM, Ricciotti E, Grosser T, Benavides F, Kazanietz MG COX-2 mediates pro-tumorigenic effects of PKCε in prostate cancer , Oncogene, 37(34): 2018,4735-4749


Bhargava HK, Leo P, Elliott R, Janowczyk A, Whitney J, Gupta S, Fu P, Yamoah K, Khani F, Robinson BD, Rebbeck TR, Feldman M, Lal Priti, Madabhushi A Computationally derived image signature of stromal morphology is prognostic of prostate cancer recurrence following prostatectomy in African American patients , Clin Cancer Res, 26(8): 2020,1915-1923


Rasool RU, Natesan R, Deng Q, Aras S, Lal Priti, Sander Effron S, Mitchell-Velasquez E, Posimo JM, Carskadon S, Baca SC, Pomerantz MM, Siddiqui J, Schwartz LE, Lee DJ, Palanisamy N, Narla G, Den RB, Freedman ML, Brady DC, Asangani IA CDK7 inhibition suppresses Castration- Resistant Prostate Cancer through MED1 inactivaion , Cancer Discov, 9(11): 2019,1538-1555


Arriola AGP, Farahani SJ, Bhargava HK, Guzzo TJ, Brooks JSJ, Lal Priti PDL-1 Expression reveals significant association with squamous differentiation in Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma , Am J Clin Pathol, 151(6): 2019 ,561-573


Sadigh S, Farahani SJ, Shah A, Vaughn D, Lal Priti Differences in PD-L1 Expressing Macrophages and Immune Micro-environment in Testicular Germ Cell Tumors , Am J Clin Pathol, 153(3): 2020,387-395


Vivek Narayan, Whitney Gladney, Gabriela Plesa, Neha Vapiwala, Erica Carpenter, Shannon L. Maude, Priti Lal, Simon F. Lacey, Jan Joseph Melenhorst, Ronnie Sebro, Michael Farwell, Wei-Ting Hwang, Michael Moniak, Joan Gilmore, Lester Lledo, Karen Dengel, Amy Marshall, Christina Marie Coughlin, Carl H. June, Naomi B. Haas A Phase 1 Clinical Trial of PSMA-directed/TGFβ-insensitive CAR-T cells in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer , Am Soc of Clin Onc 2020. J of Clin Onc : 2020


Facciabene A, Peng X, Ian SH, Barchetti A, Balint K, Wang LP, Gilks CB, Lal Priti, Zhang L, Coukos G Tumor Hypoxia Recruits Regulatory T Cells via the CCL28 Chemokine to Promote Immune Tolerance and Angiogenesis , Nature, 475(7355): 2011,226-230


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