Whatsapp About DR. SUPARNO CHAKRABARTI
Dr. Suparno Chakrabarti heads the blood and marrow transplantation and hematology departments at Dharamshila Narayana Hospital and Research Centre, New Delhi, India. He initiated the first haploidentical BMT program in India. Dr. Sarita Jaiswal has developed this as a sustained alternate donor program with over 125 haploidentical transplants in the past seven years. They have innovated newer methods of carrying out haploidentical BMT in patients with advanced leukemia and aplastic anemia with excellent results. His key area of research is transplant immunology about haploidentical BMT.
Dr. Chakrabarti trained in internal medicine at PGIMER, Chandigarh, India. Subsequently, he spent 12 years in the UK, initially as a research fellow and subsequently as a consultant in the field of BMT. He substantially developed Campath-1H-based T cell depletion and reduced intensity conditioning during this period. Most of his research also focused on post-transplant virus infections and immune reconstitution. He has over 100 publications to his credit.
He has established a world-class BMT centre in the country and runs a charitable organisation for children with blood diseases.
Professional Memberships & Certifications
- Member of the Working Party on Infectious Diseases of the European Blood and Marrow Transplantation Society
- Member of the Expert Working Committee of CIBMTR on POST-TRANSPLANT INFECTION PREVENTION
- International member of ASH (American Society of Haematology)
- Member of BSH (British Society of Hematology) and BSBMT (British Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation)
- Member of Scientific Working Group on ′QoL and Symptoms′ of European Haematology Association.
- Member of ASBMT (American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation)
Key Areas of Research
- Haploidentical HSCT; NK cell biology; post-transplantation immunorestitution; transplantation tolerance. The following are the academic highlights:
- Peer reviewer for several scientific journals, including BLOOD, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Haematologica, British Journal of Haematology, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, JAMA, Lancet, etc.
- Reviewer of grant proposals for AIRC (the Italian Association for the Search on Cancer).
Invited speaker at Asia-Pacific BMT Congress2002, Asian Transplant Congress 2002, & EBMT workshop Milan 2004, etc. - Editorial Board member for’several journals.
Expert panel member on post-transplant infections of the Center for International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry, USA (2008). - He is a Guest Editor for several journals on particular issues of Transplantation.
