Vinodh Pillai, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Contact InformationThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
5th Floor Main Building - Room 5199B
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Fax: 215-590-1736
Research Expertise
CAR T cell therapy
Pediatric hematopoietic malignancies
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Castleman disease
Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
Kikuchi-Fujimoto lymphadenitis
Clinical Expertise
Pediatric Hematopathology including leukemias and lymphomas
Pathology of CAR T cell therapy in B-ALL
Education
M.B.B.S. (Medicine and Surgery), Madras Medical College, 2002
Ph.D. (Biomedical sciences Immunology), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , 2007
Specialty Certification
American Board of Pathology (Anatomic and Clinical Pathology), 2013
American Board of Pathology Hematology, 2014
Postgraduate Training
Post-doctoral fellow of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, 2007-2009
Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Residency, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 2009-2013
Hematopathology Fellowship , Brigham and Women’s Hospital covering
Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Boston
Children's Hospital Boston, MA, 2013-2014
Awards and Honors
Top 5 Poster Award in GSO Poster Competition, 2005
Eliot Goldings Award for the Best Graduating Student in Immunology, 2007
Graduate Student Organization (GSO) Travel Award, 2007
BWH Biomedical Research Institute Microgrant Award, 2012
Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Award from the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists, 2013
Children's Oncology Group young investigator mentorship program, 2017-current
SIOP (International Society of Paediatric Oncology) Young Investigator Award, 2018
HTG EdgeSeq 2020 Autoimmune Panel Research Grant award, 2020
Memberships and Professional Organizations
American Association of Immunologists, 2007 - 2009
Clinical Immunology Society, 2007 - 2009
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, 2011 - 2014
American Society for Clinical Pathology, 2012 - Present
Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists, 2013 - 2015
International Clinical Cytometry Society, 2015 - present
Children's Oncology Group, 2015 - Present
Society for Hematopathology, 2015 - Present
Foundation Medicine, 2017 - Present
American Society for Clinical Oncology, 2018 - Present
College of American Pathologists, 2018 - Present
College of American Pathologists, 2019 - 2024
Web Links
Selected Publications
Participation in the College of American Pathologists Laboratory Accreditation Program Decreases Variability in B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Plasma Cell Myeloma Flow Cytometric Minimal Residual Disease Testing: A Follow-up Survey
Hupp MM, Bashleben C, Cardinali JL, Dorfman DM, Karlon W, Keeney M, Leith C, Long T, Murphy CE, Pillai V, Rosado FN, Seegmiller AC, Linden MA., Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 2020, PMID:32886757
Evolution of Histomorphologic, Cytogenetic, and Genetic Abnormalities in an Untreated Patient With MIRAGE Syndrome
Rentas S, Pillai V, Wertheim GB, Akgumus GT,Nichols KE, Deardorff MA, Conlin LK, Li MM, Olson TS, Luo M, Cancer Genetics 245(): 42-48, 2020, PMID:32619790
Transient atypical monocytosis after α/β T-cell-depleted haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Liou A, Van Arnam J, Pillai V, Seif AE, Tasian SK, Phillips CA, Pediatric Blood and Cancer 67(4): , 2020, PMID:31867817
CD19-Negative B-ALL Relapses after CAR T Cell Therapy are Associated with a Hypermutator Phenotype
Yang G, Faude S, Paessler ME, Wertheim GBW, Pillai V, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology 2020 Los Angeles, California, 2020
Sizable Indolent B-Lymphoblastic Expansions in Reactive Pediatric Lymph Nodes
Lee W, Bhattacharyya S, Lake J, Yang G, Pillai V, Bagg A, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology 2020 Los Angeles, California, 2020
Absolute Lymphocyte Count Kinetics Correlates with Response and Toxicity in CAR T Therapy
Faude S, Pillai V, Paessler ME, Wertheim GBW, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology 2020 Los Angeles, California, 2020
Characterization of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells, Microbial Sequences, and Identification of a Candidate Public T-cell Clone in Kikuchi-Fujimoto Lymphadenitis
Nelson ND, Meng W, Rosenfeld A, Bullman S, Pedamullu CS, Nomburg JL, Wertheim GBW, Paessler, ME, Pinkus GS, Hornick JL, Meyerson ML, Prak EL, Pillai V, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology 2020 Los Angeles, California, 2020
A New Proficiency Testing Program for the Flow Cytometric Analysis of Plasma Cell Neoplasms: Design and Preliminary Results
Dorfman DM, Bashleben C, Cardinali JL, Hupp MM, Karlon W, Keeney M, Leith CP, Murphy CE, Pillai V, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology 2020 Los Angeles, California, 2020
Loss of surface CD3 expression in allogeneic CAR T-cells
Margolskee B, Pillai V, American Journal of Hematology, 2020, PMID:32129509
CAP Color Atlas of Flow Cytometry
Vinodh Pillai, College of American Pathologists In Press(): , 2020
