Saar Gill, MD, PhD

Saar is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania where he specializes in the treatment of patients with leukemia and in bone marrow transplantation. He has led clinical trials of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell trials for chronic and acute leukemias. His research laboratory focuses on the interface between adoptive cellular therapy and genetic engineering. Saar is a foremost innovator in the cell and gene therapy space as evidenced by his being one of the most prolific patent inventors in the field globally as well as his creation of two biotherapeutics companies: Carisma Therapeutics, developing macrophage-based cellular therapeutics, and Interius BioTherapeutics, focused on specific in vivo delivery of gene therapies.

Saar obtained his medical degree and PhD in immunology from the University of Melbourne in Australia, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cellular therapy at Stanford University.