Niranjan Bhattacharya
Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, India
Biography
Niranjan Bhattacharya, Head of the Department, Regenerative Medicine and Translational Science, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, India. He is credited as the first person to conduct more than 1,200 cord blood transfusions in patients with severe anemia (less than 8gm/100ml) without the report of single adverse event. Long-term follow-up studies confirm that nearly all patients achieved a sustainable rise in hemoglobin levels, imparting a positive impact on background conditions. The following method of cord blood transfusion under the titles “A study on Human Umbilical Cord Blood Transfusion in Case of Bone marrow suppression” and “Placental Umbilical Cord Whole Blood Transfusion” is also globally patented by the Department of Science and Technology, India. He is credited with setting up India’s first public cord blood bank and is the one of the few clinical researchers in India to get a Doctor of Science Award in Obstetrics and Gynaecology for his award-winning work on “Intra-amniotic antigenic disruption of human fetal growth: search for a new safe and cheaper method of abortion in third world countries.