Charuhas Deshpande, MD

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Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Contact information
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
3400 Spruce Street, Founders - 6.039
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
Office: (215) 615-6523
Fax: (215) 349-5910
Education:
MBBS
Grant Medical College, Mumbai, India, 1986.
MD (Pathology)
Tata Memorial Hospital - University of Bombay, Mumbai, India, 1990.
MD
New York State Education Department, 2009.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

Pulmonary and Mediastinal Pathology,
Cardiovascular Pathology,

Description of Research Expertise

Neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases of lung, pleura and thymus.

Selected Publications

Pavlisko EN, Neely ML, Wikenheiser-Brokamp KA, Fishbein GA, Litzky L, Farver CF, Pal P, He M, Illei PB, Deshpande C, Robien MA, Kirchner J, Frankel CW, Lang JE, Belperio JA, Palmer SM, Sweet SC; Clinical Trials and Organ Transplantation (CTOT)-47 consortium.: Diagnostic alignment to optimize inter-rater reliability among lung transplant pathologists. J Heart Lung Transplant 44(2): 173-181, Feb 2025.

Marmarelis ME, Scholes DG, McGrath CM, Priore SF, Roth JJ, Feldman M, Morrissette JJD, Litzky L, Deshpande C, Thompson JC, Doucette A, Gabriel PE, Sun L, Singh AP, Cohen RB, Langer CJ, Carpenter EL, Aggarwal C.: Brief Report: Impact of Reflex Testing on Tissue-Based Molecular Genotyping in Patients With Advanced Non-Squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Lung Cancer 25(3): 262-265.e2, May 2024.

Kennedy GT, Azari FS, Bernstein E, Deshpande C, Kucharczuk JC, Delikatny EJ, Singhal S.: Three-Dimensional Near-Infrared Specimen Mapping Can Identify the Distance from the Tumor to the Surgical Margin During Resection of Pulmonary Ground Glass Opacities. Mol Imaging Biol 25(1): 203-211, Feb 2023.

Clifford W Sandlin, Song Gu, Jun Xu, Charuhas Deshpande, Michael D Feldman, Matthew C Good: Epithelial cell size dysregulation in human lung adenocarcinoma. PLoS One 17(10), October 2022.

Kennedy GT, Azari FS, Bernstein E, Marfatia I, Din A, Deshpande C, Galvis N, Sorger J, Kucharczuk JC, Singhal S.: First-in-human results of targeted intraoperative molecular imaging for visualization of ground glass opacities during robotic pulmonary resection. Transl Lung Cancer Res 11(8): 1567-1577, Aug 2022.

Abdeen S, Bdeir K, Abu-Fanne R, Maraga E, Higazi M, Khurram N, Feldman M, Deshpande C, Litzky LA, Heyman SN, Montone KT, Cines DB, Higazi AA.: Alpha-defensins: risk factor for thrombosis in COVID-19 infection. British Journal of Haematology 194(1): 44-52, July 2021.

Bryski MG, Frenzel-Sulyok LG, Delikatny EJ, Deshpande C, Litzky LA, Singhal S.: Molecular imaging can identify the location to perform a frozen biopsy during intraoperative frozen section consultation. PLoS One 16(6): e0252731, June 2021.

Predina JD, Haas AR, Martinez M, O'Brien S, Moon EK, Woodruff P, Stadanlick J, Corbett C, Frenzel-Sulyok L, Bryski MG, Eruslanov E, Deshpande C, Langer C, Aguilar LK, Guzik BW, Manzanera AG, Aguilar-Cordova E, Singhal S, Albelda SM.: Neoadjuvant Gene-Mediated Cytotoxic Immunotherapy for Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Safety and Immunologic Activity. Molecular Therapy 29(2): 658-670, February 2021.

Thompson JC, Davis C, Deshpande C, Hwang WT, Jeffries S, Huang A, Mitchell TC, Langer CJ, Albelda SM.: Gene signature of antigen processing and presentation machinery predicts response to checkpoint blockade in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and melanoma. J Immunother Cancer. 8(2): e000974, October 2020.

Bauml JM, Mick R, Ciunci C, Aggarwal C, Davis C, Evans T, Deshpande C, Miller L, Patel P, Alley E, Knepley C, Mutale F, Cohen RB, Langer CJ.: Pembrolizumab After Completion of Locally Ablative Therapy for Oligometastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Phase 2 Trial. JAMA Oncology 1(2): 1283-1290, Sep 2019.

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Last updated: 09/02/2025
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