Prof. Dr. Suresh Advani, is one of the most renowned and acclaimed medical oncologists in India. Dr. Advani has 43 years of expertise as a physician, pediatric-oncologist, and hemato-oncologist.

He is credited with being the first to perform hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in India. The wheelchair-bound doctor was diagnosed with poliomyelitis when he was eight years old and went on to study at Grant Medical College in Mumbai (where he earned his MBBS and MD Medicine degrees), after which he served as a medical oncologist at Tata Memorial Centre for several years.

He is credited with being the first to perform hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in India.

He went on to receive a Fellowship in the field of bone marrow transplantation from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington where he worked with Dr. E Donnall Thomas, renowned as the “Father of BMT” and winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1990. He also received the Fellowship of Yamagiwa-Yoshida Memorial International Cancer Study Grant of the International Union Against Cancer in 1986.

Dr. Advani is credited with becoming the first oncologist in India to perform a successful bone marrow transplant, and establishing the first bone marrow transplantation setup in India. He also took part in clinical trials for lymphoblastic leukemia patients. The trials, which involved 1,200 patients, managed to increase therapy success rates from 20% to 70%.

Dr. Advani is credited with becoming the first oncologist in India to perform a successful bone marrow transplant, and establishing the first bone marrow transplantation setup in India.