R. Alejandro A. Sica, MD

About Dr. Sica

Dr. Sica is an attending physician at Montefiore and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is a specialist in cellular and immunotherapies, with clinical expertise in CAR T-cell therapy, allogeneic stem cell transplantation, central nervous system lymphomas, HIV-associated malignancies, adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, and gene therapies for hematologic disorders.

Dr. Sica is a member of the Bone Marrow Transplant team and contributes to clinical innovation through research in combination immunotherapy, cancer vaccines, and transplant strategies. He earned his medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires, where he also taught immunology and pharmacology. His postgraduate training includes an Internal Medicine residency at Carney Hospital/Tufts, a Hematology/Oncology fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago—where he received honors for academic and clinical innovation—and a fellowship in Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapies at Stanford University.

His research on reduced-toxicity treatment regimens for Hodgkin lymphoma and novel transplant protocols has been widely published. Dr. Sica is board certified in Internal Medicine, Hematology, and Medical Oncology.

Articles by R. Alejandro A. Sica, MD

Mohamed Kharfan-Dabaja, MD, MBAT-Cell Lymphoma | June 7, 2025
Experts discuss T-cell lymphoma care, new therapies, transplant timing, and the role of NGS in treatment decisions.
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