Saar I. Gill, MD, PhD

Hematology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Abramson Cancer Center Perelman 4th Floor West
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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

My education and training

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

Spoken languages

English
English

Reviews

Average Rating

53 reviews

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Anonymous
December 2025
dr gill is very knowledgeable and has a good way of explaining things.
Anonymous
December 2025
exceptional doctor.
Anonymous
October 2025
knowledgeable and kind.
Anonymous
September 2025
easy to visit with, you can tell he is passionate about taking good care of his patients

Insurance accepted

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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

Research

Publications

Blumenberg V, Diorio C, Gauthier J, Agrusa JE, Dreyzin A, Hänel G, Espinoza-Gutarra MR, Geer M, Perales MA, Ramakrishna S, Jain MD, Gill S, Locke FL, Shouval R, Subklewe M, Komanduri KV, Chapuis AG, Paczesny S, Rejeski K, Shah NN. Expert Panel Review and Practical Guidance on Biomarker Testing with Engineered Immune Effector Cells , Transplant Cell Ther: 2026


Durgin JS, Seo SH, Kazmi S, Valentić B, Leff C, Markovska M, Jin X, Shen F, Berjis A, Mukherjee N, Sannecy A, Plesa G, Gabunia K, Scholler J, Gill SI, O'Connor RS, June CH, Ghassemi S. Single-day nonactivated IL-18-armed CAR T cells establish a durable, stemlike state with enhanced persistence , Blood: 2026


Chen GM, Jain A, Gering DT, Satulovsky J, Datta S, Lai P, Karar J, Gonzalez VE, Alexander K, Chew A, Jadlowsky JK, Ruella M, Paruzzo L, Amses KR, Rech AJ, Stadtmauer EA, Frey NV, Hexner EO, Porter DL, Cohen AD, Gill SI, Garfall AL, Schuster SJ, Mo KC, Liang SI, Spasic M, Levine BL, Siegel DL, Ramírez-Fernández A, Cabanski CR, Yang E, Mackall CL, Bushman FD, Good Z, John Wherry E, June CH, Fraietta JA. Predictive biomarkers of response to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for pan-haematologic cancer , Nat Biomed Eng: 2026


Altun B, Zhao G, Wang B, Mao X, Manfredo-Vieira S, Willis E, Radaelli E, Goodman EE, Boesteanu AC, Gill SI, Patel DR, Wong S, Cottman-Thomas E, Hogan JJ, Payne AS. Preclinical evaluation of antigen-specific B-cell depletion for phospholipase A2 receptor membranous nephropathy with chimeric autoantibody receptor T cells , Kidney Int: 2026


Bot A, Stephan MT, Gill S. The dawn of in vivo immune cell engineering in oncology , Nat Biotechnol: 2026


Bowman M, Gounder S, Singh V, Shestova O, Robinson T, Zhang A, Gandhi A, Bandopadhyay R, Cai SF, Levine RL, Gill SI, Miles LA, Bowman RL. scDNA: Single Cell DNA analysis software toolkit for subclonality discovery and assessment , bioRxiv: 2025


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, 9: 2025,6047-6058


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