Jalal Badie Jalaly, MBBS, MS
Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Associate Director of Surgical Pathology
Director, Cytopathology Fellowship Program
Interim Director, Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) Pathology Service
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Contact InformationHospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
6 Founders Pavilion
3400 Spruce St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: 215-615-5032
Specialty Division
Anatomic Pathology
Research Expertise
Oropharyngeal HPV-related squamous cell carcinoma
Clinical Expertise
Head and neck, endocrine, and cytopathology
Education
MBBS (Medicine and Surgery), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2009
MS (Science & Biotechnology), Albany College of Pharmacy , 2012
Specialty Certification
ECFMG, 2009
MCCEE, 2010
American Board of Pathology, 2016
American Board of Cytopathology, 2018
Postgraduate Training
Internship Year in Medicine & Surgery, King Khalid U. Hospital, King Abdulaziz Military Hospital, King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Fahad Medical City, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, 2009-2010
Research Post Doc, Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Albany, NY, 2010-2011
Pathology Observer, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, KY, USA, 2011-2011
Animal Researcher, Veterans Affairs Hospital, Albany, NY, 2011-2012
Pathology Resident AP/CP, Washington University/Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 2012-2016
Surgical Pathology Fellowship, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2016-2017
Cytopathology Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA, 2017-2018
Awards and Honors
Pathology Outlines Best Chapter Award, 2019
American Society of Clinical Pathology 40 under 40 honoree, 2022
Memberships and Professional Organizations
American Society of Cytology, 2012 - Present
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, 2012 - Present
College of American Pathologists, 2012 - Present
American Society for Clinical Pathology, 2012 - Present
North American Society of Head and Neck Pathology, 2019 - Present
Endocrine Pathology Society, 2019 - Present
Pennsylvania Association of Pathologists, 2025 - Present
Web Links
Selected Publications
Molecular etiology and clinical significance of discordant HPV testing in p16+ oropharyngeal cancers
Gallant JN, Rich DJ, Raghav L, Sannigrahi MK, Patria JN, Mishra SK, Lin A, Brody RM, Jalaly JB, Mirabello L, Basu D, JCO Precis Oncol, 2026, PMID:41785441
Calcifying Nested Stromal-Epithelial Tumor of the Liver: A Pilot Study Using Next Generation Sequencing of Microdissected Stromal and Epithelial Components
Sujani Madabhushi ∙ Jalal Jalaly ∙ Salvatore Priore ∙ Portia Kreiger, USCAP 106(): , 2026
Defining the clinical and biologic implications of HPV genome state variability among oropharyngeal cancers using transcriptomic analysis
Vikram Vasan, Lovely Raghav, Malay Sannigrahi, Robert Brody, Alexander Lin, John Nicholas Lukens, Lova Sun, Iain M Morgan, Ahmed Diab, Jalal Jalaly, Devraj Basu, ASCO, 2026
Evidence of a role for oropharyngeal cancer cells with low HPV gene expression in treatment failure
Basu D, Sannigrahi MK, Raghav L, Rajagopalan P, Brody R, Jalaly J, Gallant JN, Journal of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2025
Interpretable HPV detection in head and neck cancer using foundation models and synthetic digital pathology
Hieromnimon HM, Trzcinska A, Wen F, Howard FM, Dolezal JM, Dyer E, Kochanny S, Schulte J, Wang C, Chen H, Chin J, …, Jalaly JB, et al, Cancer Research, 2025
Tumor-intrinsic and immune-related features associated with treatment failure in human papillomavirus-related oropharyngeal cancer
Sannigrahi MK, Raghav L, Rich DJ, Schrank TP, Califano JA, Lukens JN, Sun L, Morgan IM, Cohen RB, Lin A, Liu X…, Jalaly JB, et al, JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2025, PMID:40069922
Analysis of AI foundation model features decodes the histopathologic landscape of HPV-positive head and neck squamous cell carcinomas
Hieromnimon HM, Trzcinska A, Wen FT, Howard FM, Dolezal JM, Dyer E, Kochanny S, Schulte JJ, Wang C, Chen H, Chin J, Blair E, Agrawal N, Rosenberg A, Vokes E, Katipally R, Juloori A, Izumchenko E, Lingen MW, Cipriani N, Jalaly JB, Basu D, Riesenfeld SJ, Pearson AT, Oral Oncology 163(): , 2025, PMID:40043423
MMP11 as a Prognostic Indicator for Inverted Papilloma Histologic Grade and Recurrence
Jalaly JB, The Laryngoscope, 2025
Psammoma bodies in thyroid: are they always indicative of malignancy? A multi-institutional study
Rossi ED, Agarwal S, Erkilic S, Hang JF, Jalaly JB, Khanafshar E, Ladenheim A, Baloch Z, Virchows Archiv 485(): , 2024, PMID:39349665
Association of oropharyngeal cancer recurrence with tumor-intrinsic and immune-mediated sequelae of reduced genomic instability.
Sannigrahi, Malay K.,..., Jalaly JB, et al, bioRxiv, 2024, PMID:39574723
