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Annapurna Saksena, MBBS, MD

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Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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67 Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, India, 2008.
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33 University of Delhi, India, 2014.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

4b lymphomas, leukemias, flow cytometry, histiocytic neoplasms
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Description of Research Expertise

37 molecular findings in lymphoidneoplasm
32 DNA methylation in hematolymphoid neoplasms
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Selected Publications

317 Annapurna Saksena, Christin Siewert, Rust Turakulov, Omkar Singh, Zied Abdullaev, Ting Zhou, Jeremiah Karrs, Joao Victor Alves De Castro, Deanna Riley, Shannon Skarshaug, Valerie Zgonc, Lana Sultanaeva, Ruifeng Teng, Liqiang Xi, Robert J. Kreitman, Andreas von Deimling, Martí Duran-Ferrer, José Ignacio Martín-Subero, Elias Campo, Benjamin Englert, Julia Richter, Wolfram Klapper, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Andreas Rosenwald, Marion Wobser, Falko Fend, Leticia Quintanilla-Martinez, Gerardo Ferrer, Manel Esteller, Miguel A. Piris, Michael Hummel, Stefania Pittaluga, Mark Raffeld, Elaine S. Jaffe, David Capper, Kenneth Aldape: DNA methylation-based classification of hematolymphoid neoplasms. Blood Advances 2026.

105 Julia Wang, Annapurna Saksena: Distinctive morphologic finding of multifocal perifollicular concentric granulomas in a lymph node with IgG4 plasmacytosis. Blood 145(9): 993, February 2025.

c3 Julia Wang, Annapurna Saksena: DNA methylation-based profiling in B-cell lymphomas. Advances in Molecular Pathology 2025.

160 Li Xingchen, Devi P, Saksena A: A Rare Case of Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma Co-occurring with Small Lymphocytic Leukemia: De Novo Process or Richter's Syndrome? American Journal of Clinical Pathology 162(Supplement_1): S77-S78, October 2024 Notes: DOI:10.1093/ajcp/aqae129.173.

133 Olabisi Afolayan-Oloye MD, MPH; Vania, Aikawa, MD; Siddarth Bhattacharyya, MD; Annapurna Saksena, MD : Mixed phenotypic acute leukemia 22nd Meeting of the European Association for Hematopathology at Dubrovnik, Croatia September 2024.

125 Devi P, Saksena, A, Bhattacharyya S, Pozdnyakova O: EBV-associated T-cell Lymphoproliferative Disorder in a Young Adult 22nd Meeting of the European Association for Hematopathology at Dubrovnik, Croatia September 2024.

18f Ferré EMN, Nichols-Vinueza DX, Rosen LB, Burbelo PD, Fennelly KP, Pechacek J, Goldstein DM, Agharahimi A, Saksena A, Kleiner DE, Demirdag YY, Rajan A, Schrump DS, Holland SM, Freeman AF, Lionakis MS: Lymphocyte-Directed Immunomodulation Remits Thymoma-Associated Autoimmune Pneumonitis. J Clin Immunol 44(7): 156, July 2024.

122 Jeremiah Karrs, Prabhjot Kaur, Eric Loo1, Mark Raffeld, Annapurna Saksena, Elaine Jaffe: Primary cutaneous gamma delta T-cell lymphoma, EBV positive. SH/EASH Workshop 2023 at MD Andrson cancer center. November 2023.

159 Annapurna Saksena, Andreia N Barbieri, Ina Lee, Stefania Pittaluga, Elaine Jaffe, Mark Raffeld: Pleural and diaphragmatic involvement by gamma delta T- lymphoblastic lymphoma/leukemia Case presentation at SH/EASH Workshop 2023 at MD Andrson cancer center. Novemeber 2023.

ee Saksena A, Rajgariah A.: A novel case of peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified, with rhabdoid morphology and INI1 loss. Blood 142(7): 675, August 2023.

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