Saar I. Gill, MD, PhD
Hematology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Abramson Cancer Center Perelman 4th Floor West
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Scientific Co-Director, Cell Therapy and Transplant Program
  • Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Education and training

  • Medical School: University of Melbourne
  • Residency: St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
  • Residency: St. Vincent Hospital
  • Residency: St. Vincent's Hospital
  • Fellowship: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

What my patients think about me

Average Rating

51 reviews

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October 2025
knowledgeable and kind.
September 2025
easy to visit with, you can tell he is passionate about taking good care of his patients
September 2025
exceptional doctor
August 2025
he's great

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Gill is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

McFarland AG, Ooi SK, Tafuri D, Kamali E, Cooper N, Cook EJ, Reddy S, Jarocha D, Wellhausen N, Gill SI, Roche AM, Fraietta JA, Bushman FD, Herbst F. An integrated enzymatic and computational pipeline for quantifying off-target base-editing , bioRxiv: 2025


Naik S, Aplenc R, Baumeister SHC, Becilli M, Bhagwat AS, Bonifant CL, Budde LE, Chien CD, Curran KJ, Daniyan AF, Dreyzin A, Gardner RA, Ghorashian S, Gottschalk S, Hill LC, Kohler ME, Lamble AJ, Locatelli F, Mamonkin M, Omer B, Park JH, Quintarelli C, Rambaldi B, Richards RM, Sallman DA, Sauer T, Shah NN, Subklewe M, Summers C, Tasian SK, Taylor N, Tettamanti S, Verneris MR, Velasquez MP, Gill SI. International Consensus Guidelines for the Conduct and Reporting of CAR T-Cell Clinical Trials in AML , Blood Adv: 2025


Mellors PW, Lange AN, Casino Remondo B, Shestov M, Planer JD, Peterson AR, Ying Y, Zhou S, Christie JD, Diamond JM, Cantu E, Basil MC, Gill S. Shared roles of immune and stromal cells in the pathogenesis of human bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome , JCI Insight, 10: 2025,e176596


Sande CM, Chen S, Mitchell DV, Lin P, Abraham DM, Cheng JM, Gebhard T, Deolikar RJ, Freeman C, Zhou M, Kumar S, Bowman M, Bowman RL, Zheng S, Munkhbileg B, Chen Q, Stanley NL, Guo K, Lapite A, Hausler R, Taylor DM, Corines J, Morrissette JJ, Lieberman DB, Yang G, Shestova O, Gill S, Zheng J, Smith-Simmer K, Banaszak LG, Shoger KN, Reinig EF, Peterson M, Nicholas P, Walne AJ, Dokal I, Rosenheck JP, Oetjen KA, Link DC, Gelman AE, Reilly CR, Dutta R, Lindsley RC, Brundige KJ, Agarwal S, Bertuch AA, Churpek JE, Tague LK, Johnson FB, Olson TS, Babushok DV. ATM-dependent DNA damage response constrains cell growth and drives clonal hematopoiesis in telomere biology disorders , J Clin Invest, 135: 2025,e181659


Pierini S, Gabbasov R, Oliveira-Nunes MC, Qureshi R, Worth A, Huang S, Nagar K, Griffin C, Lian L, Yashiro-Ohtani Y, Ross K, Sloas C, Ball M, Schott B, Sonawane P, Cornell L, Blumenthal D, Chhum S, Minutolo N, Ciccaglione K, Shaw L, Zentner I, Levitsky H, Shestova O, Gill S, Varghese B, Cushing D, Ceeraz DeLong S, Abramson S, Condamine T, Klichinsky M. Author Correction: Chimeric antigen receptor macrophages (CAR-M) sensitize HER2+ solid tumors to PD1 blockade in pre-clinical models , Nat Commun, 16: 2025,2692


Wang X, Gimotty PA, Matthews AH, Mamtani R, Luger SM, Hexner EO, Babushok DV, McCurdy SR, Frey NV, Bruno XJ, Gill S, Martin ME, Paralkar VR, Maillard I, Porter DL, Loren AW, Perl AE, Pratz KW, Getz KD, Lai C. Evolving racial/ethnic disparities in AML survival in the novel therapy era , Blood Adv, 9: 2025,533-544


Pierini S, Gabbasov R, Oliveira-Nunes MC, Qureshi R, Worth A, Huang S, Nagar K, Griffin C, Lian L, Yashiro-Ohtani Y, Ross K, Sloas C, Ball M, Schott B, Sonawane P, Cornell L, Blumenthal D, Chhum S, Minutolo N, Ciccaglione K, Shaw L, Zentner I, Levitsky H, Shestova O, Gill S, Varghese B, Cushing D, Ceeraz DeLong S, Abramson S, Condamine T, Klichinsky M. Chimeric antigen receptor macrophages (CAR-M) sensitize HER2+ solid tumors to PD1 blockade in pre-clinical models , Nat Commun, 16: 2025,706


Reiss KA, Angelos MG, Dees EC, Yuan Y, Ueno NT, Pohlmann PR, Johnson ML, Chao J, Shestova O, Serody JS, Schmierer M, Kremp M, Ball M, Qureshi R, Schott BH, Sonawane P, DeLong SC, Christiano M, Swaby RF, Abramson S, Locke K, Barton D, Kennedy E, Gill S, Cushing D, Klichinsky M, Condamine T, Abdou Y. CAR-macrophage therapy for HER2-overexpressing advanced solid tumors: a phase 1 trial , Nat Med: 2025


Jadlowsky JK, Hexner EO, Marshall A, Grupp SA, Frey NV, Riley JL, Veloso E, McConville H, Rogal W, Czuczman C, Hwang WT, Li Y, Leskowitz RM, Farrelly O, Karar J, Christensen S, Barber-Rotenberg J, Gaymon A, Aronson N, Bernstein W, Melenhorst JJ, Roche AM, Everett JK, Zolnoski SA, McFarland AG, Reddy S, Petrichenko A, Cook EJ, Lee C, Gonzalez VE, Alexander K, Kulikovskaya I, Ramírez-Fernández Á, Minehart JC, Ruella M, Gill SI, Schuster SJ, Cohen AD, Garfall AL, Shah PD, Porter DL, Maude SL, Levine BL, Siegel DL, Chew A, McKenna S, Lledo L, Davis MM, Plesa G, Herbst F, Stadtmauer EA, Tebas P, DiNofia A, Haas A, Haas NB, Myers R, O'Rourke DM, Svoboda J, Tanyi JL, Aplenc R, Jacobson JM, Ko AH, Cohen RB, June CH, Bushman FD, Fraietta JA. Long-term safety of lentiviral or gammaretroviral gene-modified T cell therapies , Nat Med: 2025


Maillie L, Nasta SD, Svoboda J, Barta SK, Chong EA, Garfall AL, Gill SI, Porter DL, Schuster SJ, Catania C, Frey NV, Landsburg DJ. Prolonged Neurologic Symptoms Following Immune Effector Cell-Associated Neurotoxicity Syndrome in Patients With Large B-cell Lymphoma Treated With Chimeric Antigen Receptor-Modified T Cell Therapy , Transplant Cell Ther: 2025