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Sunil Singhal

Associate Program Director · University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

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History

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania · University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Present
Thoracic Surgery Division · University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Present
Division of Thoracic Surgery · University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Present

University of Pennsylvania
2018
Thoracic Surgery
University of Pennsylvania Health System
2005–2007
Centre Chirurgical Marie Lannelongue Hospital
2007
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
2005–2007
Johns Hopkins Hospital
1998–2005
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
2001–2003
Emory University
The Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
1994–1998

Research

Tumor-associated neutrophils stimulate T cell responses in early-stage human lung cancer
Journal of Clinical Investigation · 2014 · Last of 14 authors · 559 citations
Evolving options in the management of esophageal perforation
Systematic review or meta-analysis · The Annals of Thoracic Surgery · 2004 · 534 citations
Origin and Role of a Subset of Tumor-Associated Neutrophils with Antigen-Presenting Cell Features in Early-Stage Human Lung Cancer
Cancer Cell · 2016 · First of 15 authors · 404 citations

Jarrod Predina
61 papers · 57 as a resident
GK
Gregory Kennedy
52 papers · 45 as a resident
John Kucharczuk
51 papers
Steven Albelda
46 papers
FA
Feredun Azari
42 papers · 40 as a resident
Andrew Newton
34 papers · 34 as a resident
Charuhas Deshpande
24 papers
Jane Keating
24 papers · 21 as a resident
John Lee
21 papers
Keith Cengel
21 papers
Olugbenga Okusanya
21 papers · 17 as a resident
LK
Larry Kaiser
16 papers

Grants

Clinical Translation of a Choline-Targeted NIR Dye to Guide Lung Cancer Resection
National Cancer Institute · R01
PI · $1.3M · University of Pennsylvania
2025–2030
Intraoperative Near Infrared Molecular Imaging of Lung Cancer
National Cancer Institute · P01
Contact PI · $8.3M · University of Pennsylvania
2022–2027
Translating Phospholipase Activatable Fluorophores for the Sensitive Detection of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
National Cancer Institute · R01
PI · $2.4M · University of Pennsylvania
2022–2027
Improving Lung Cancer Surgery with an Intraoperative, Tumor-Targeted, Activatable Fluorescent Imaging Agent
National Cancer Institute · R44
PI · $2M · Vergent Bioscience, Inc.
2022–2024

Clinical trials

OTL38 Injection (OTL38) for Intra-Operative Imaging of Folate Receptor Positive Ovarian Cancer
Principal investigator · Withdrawn · Phase 1
Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine
2022
A Study to Evaluate Pegsitacianine, an Intraoperative Fluorescence Imaging Agent for the Detection of Lung Malignancies
Principal investigator · Completed · Phase 2
OncoNano Medicine, Inc.
2022
Intraoperative Imaging of Pulmonary Nodules by SGM-101
Principal investigator · Completed · Phase 1
Sunil Singhal
2020–2022
ELUCIDATE: Enabling Lung Cancer Identification Using Folate Receptor Targeting
Principal investigator · Completed · Phase 3
On Target Laboratories, LLC
2020–2021