Penn Medicine Provider
Hematology
Jakub Svoboda, MD
5.0
(410)
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Abramson Cancer Center Perelman 4th Floor West

About me

  • Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Education and training

  • Medical School: Yale University
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

What my patients think about me

Average Rating
5.0

410 reviews

Comments are submitted by patients and reflect their views and opinions. The comments are not endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of Penn Medicine.

May 2025
5.0
5.0
excellent doctor!
May 2025
5.0
5.0
he's a fantastic doctor
May 2025
5.0
5.0
listens to me
May 2025
5.0
5.0
visit was good

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Svoboda is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Schuster SJ, Svoboda J, Chong EA, Nasta SD, Mato AR, Anak Ö, Brogdon JL, Pruteanu-Malinici I, Bhoj V, Landsburg D, Wasik M, Levine BL, Lacey SF, Melenhorst JJ, Porter DL, June CH. Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells in Refractory B-Cell Lymphomas , N Engl J Med, 377(26): 2017,2545-2554


Jakub Svoboda, Steven M Bair, Daniel J Landsburg, Sunita Dwivedy Nasta, Sarah J Nagle, Stefan K Barta, Nadia Khan, Joanne Filicko-O'Hara, Sameh Gaballa, Lauren Strelec, Elise Chong, Sheryl Mitnick, Terease S Waite, Cara King, Hatcher Ballard, Matthew Youngman, James Gerson, John P Plastaras, Amit Maity, Agata M Bogusz, Stacy S Hung, Hisae Nakamura, Reza Nejati, Christian Steidl, Megan Lim, Marco Ruella, Stephen J Schuster Brentuximab vedotin in combination with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and prednisone as frontline treatment for patients with CD30-positive B-cell lymphomas , Haematologica, 106(6): 2021,1705 -1713


Svoboda J, Rheingold SR, Gill SI, Grupp SA, Lacey SF, Kulikovskaya I, Suhoski MM, Melenhorst JJ, Loudon B, Mato AR, Nasta SD, Landsburg DJ, Youngman MR, Levine BL, Porter DL, June CH, Schuster SJ. Non-viral RNA chimeric antigen receptor modified T cells in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma. , Blood, 132(10): 2018,1022-1026


Ruan J1, Martin P1, Christos P2, Cerchietti L1, Tam W3, Shah B4, Schuster SJ5, Rodriguez A1, Hyman D1, Calvo-Vidal MN1, Smith SM6, Svoboda J4, Furman RR1, Coleman M1, Leonard JP1. Five-year follow-up of lenalidomide plus rituximab as initial treatment for mantle cell lymphoma. , Blood, 132(19): 2018,2016-2025


P Armand, S Rodig, V Melnichenko, C Thieblemont, K Bouabdallah, G Tumyan, M Özcan, S Portino, L Fogliatto, MD Caballero, J Walewski, Z Gulbas, V Ribrag, B Christian, GF Perini, G Salles, J Svoboda, J Zain, S Patel, PH Chen, AH Ligon, J Ouyang, D Neuberg, R Redd, A Chatterjee, A Balakumaran, R Orlowski, M Shipp, and PL Zinzani Pembrolizumab in Relapsed or Refractory Primary Mediastinal Large B-Cell Lymphoma , J Clin Oncol., 37(34): 2019,3291-3299


Bair SM, Mato A, Svoboda J. Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Hodgkin Lymphoma: An Evolving Paradigm. , Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk, 18(6): 2018,380-391


Elise A Chong, Cécile Alanio, Jakub Svoboda, Sunita D Nasta, Daniel J Landsburg, Simon F Lacey, Marco Ruella, Siddharth Bhattacharyya, E John Wherry, Stephen J Schuster Pembrolizumab for B-cell lymphomas relapsing after or refractory to CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy , Blood, The Journal of the American Society of Hematology, 139(7): 2022,1026-1038


G Ghilardi, EA Chong, J Svoboda, P Wohlfarth, SD Nasta, S Williamson, JD Landsburg, JN Gerson, SK Barta, R Pajarillo, J Myers, AI Chen, L Schachter, R Yelton, HJ Ballard, A Hodges Dwinal, S Gier, D Victoriano, E Weber, E Napier, A Garfall, DL Porter, U Jäger, RT Maziarz, M Ruella, SJ Schuster Bendamustine is Safe and Effective for Lymphodepletion Before Tisagenlecleucel in Patients with Refractory or Relapsed Large B-Cell Lymphomas , Annals of Oncology: 2022


Miguel-Angel Perales, Larry D Anderson Jr, Tania Jain, Saad S Kenderian, Olalekan O Oluwole, Gunjan L Shah, Jakub Svoboda, Mehdi Hamadani Role of CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells in Second-Line Large B Cell Lymphoma: Lessons from Phase 3 Trials. An Expert Panel Opinion from the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy , Transplantation and Cellular Therapy , 28(9): 2022,546-559


Carrie Ho, Marco Ruella, Bruce L Levine, Jakub Svoboda Adoptive T-cell therapy for Hodgkin lymphoma , Blood Advances, 5(20): 2021,4291-4302