GeraldBenjamin(Werthiem)WertheimMD

Hematopathology, Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology

Assistant Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine

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Office
3400 Spruce Street
6 Founders
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone+1 215-662-6503

University of Pennsylvania Health SystemFellowship, Hematopathology, 2009 - 2011
University of Pennsylvania Health SystemResidency, Pathology-Anatomic and Clinical, 2005 - 2009
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaClass of 2005

PubMed

714 citations
Identification of Predictive Biomarkers for Cytokine Release Syndrome after Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell Therapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
David T. Teachey, Simon F. Lacey, Pamela A. Shaw, J. Joseph Melenhorst, Shannon L. Maude
Cancer Discovery. 2016-06-01
167 citations
A novel doxycycline-inducible system for the transgenic analysis of mammary gland biology
Edward J. Gunther, George K. Belka, Gerald Wertheim, James Y. Wang, Jennifer L. Hartman
FASEB Journal. 2002-03-01
191 citations
Persistence of long-lived plasma cells and humoral immunity in individuals responding to CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy
Vijay Bhoj, Dimitrios Arhontoulis, Gerald Wertheim, James Capobianchi, Colleen Callahan
Blood. 2016-07-21

Abstracts/Posters

DYRK1A Is Regulated By Oncogenic KMT2A and Required for Survival of KMT2A-Rearranged Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Gerald Wertheim, 61st Annual American Society of Hematology Meeting, Orlando, FL, 12/8/2019
Lncrna Morrbid Regulates Myeloid Cell Survival of AML Driven By a Combination of FLT3ITD and Epigenetic Mutations
Gerald Wertheim, 61st Annual American Society of Hematology Meeting, Orlando, FL, 12/9/2019
Oncogene-Independent Adaptation of Pre-B Cell Receptor Signaling Confers Drug Resistance and Signaling Plasticity in Ph-like ALL
Gerald Wertheim, 61st Annual American Society of Hematology Meeting, Orlando, FL, 12/9/2019

Lectures

Immunophenotypic and Genetic Overlap between JMML and CMML
2018 ASH Annual Meeting - San Diego, CA - 12/1/2018