Dr. Gaurav Kharya is a Clinical Lead at Center for Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy, Senior Consultant in pediatric hematology oncology and immunology at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi. He completed his graduation from Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur Madhya Pradesh. Following this, he did his post-graduation DCH in pediatric from Baba Raghav Das Medical College, Gorakhpur, UP. In 2009, he joined his fellowship in pediatric hemato-oncology & BMT at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital which he completed in 2011.

Dr. Kharya has a vast experience in transplanting children with various blood disorders, benign or malignant, immunological diseases etc nationally and internationally. Dr. Kharya is credited for doing the first haploidentical bone marrow transplant for sickle cell disease in India & also for doing in-vitro TCR alpha beta CD 19 depleted haploidentical BMT in a 4 month old baby suffering from severe combined immunodeficiency who is the smallest child transplanted in the country so far.

Along with his team members at different centers, he has done more than 600 bone marrow transplants so far. His area of interest is alternative donor transplant such as haploidentical transplants and matched or mismatched unrelated donor transplants.

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