Annapurna Saksena, MBBS, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Contact information
3400 Spruce Street
7.010 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104
7.010 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
MBBS (Medicine & Surgery)
Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, India, 2008.
MD (Pathology)
University of Delhi, India, 2014.
Permanent linkMBBS (Medicine & Surgery)
Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, India, 2008.
MD (Pathology)
University of Delhi, India, 2014.
Description of Clinical Expertise
lymphomas, leukemias, flow cytometry, histiocytic neoplasmsDescription of Research Expertise
molecular findings in lymphoidneoplasmDNA methylation in hematolymphoid neoplasms
Selected Publications
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.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.
Julia Wang, Annapurna Saksena: DNA methylation-based profiling in B-cell lymphomas. Advances in Molecular Pathology 2025.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.