Anil Vachani

About

Anil Vachani, MD, MSCE, is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine in the Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He serves as the Chief of Medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care) and is an Attending Physician at the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center. His roles include Director of Clinical Research in the Section of Interventional Pulmonology and Thoracic Oncology, as well as Director of Bronchoscopy at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. Additionally, he is the Co-Director of the Lung Cancer Screening Program at both the Perelman School of Medicine and the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.

Research topics

• Internal medicine
• Computational biology
• Pathology
• Intensive care medicine
• Biology
• Bioinformatics
• Genetics
• Family medicine
• Radiology
• Medicine

Selected publications

• The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions across Space and Time at Single-Cell Resolution

  Cell · 2020 · 581 citations

  Crucial transitions in cancer-including tumor initiation, local expansion, metastasis, and therapeutic resistance-involve complex interactions between cells within the dynamic tumor ecosystem. Transformative single-cell genomics technologies and spatial multiplex in situ methods now provide an opportunity to interrogate this complexity at unprecedented resolution. The Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN), part of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Moonshot Initiative, will establish a clinic…

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• Management of Lung Nodules and Lung Cancer Screening During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  CHEST Journal · 2020 · 129 citations

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• Cancer Screening During the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic: A Perspective From the National Cancer Institute’s PROSPR Consortium

  Gastroenterology · 2020-10-21 · 69 citations

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• Less Versus More Intensive Surveillance of Pulmonary Nodules Detected Incidentally or by Screening: A Survey of Radiologist Beliefs About Guidelines Implemented in the Watch the Spot Trial

  Journal of the American College of Radiology · 2025-12-01 · 1 citations

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• Impact of Race and Acculturation on Lung Cancer Screening Eligibility: A Multi-Center Lung Cancer Cohort Study

  American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 2026-03-19

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Recent grants

• Admin_Core

  NIH · $9.0M · 2022–2027

• NIH Grant R21CA156087

  NIH · $414k · 2014

• Environmental Health Informatics Core

  NIH · $16.5M · 2006–2030

Frequent coauthors

• Katharine A. Rendle

  Abramson Cancer Center

  101 shared

• Steven Μ. Albelda

  83 shared

• Jeffrey C. Thompson

  University of Pennsylvania

  62 shared

• Corey J. Langer

  University of Pennsylvania

  60 shared

• William N. Rom

  54 shared

• Louise C. Showe

  54 shared

• Michael K. Showe

  53 shared

• Justin E. Bekelman

  University of Pennsylvania

  49 shared

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