Dr Gaurav Kharya is a Clinical Lead Center for Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy, Senior Consultant Pediatric Hematology Oncology and Immunology.

Dr Kharya is credited for doing the first haploidentical bone marrow transplant for sickle cell disease in India & also for doing first invitro TCR alpha beta CD 19 depleted haploidentical BMT in a 5 month old baby suffering from severe combined immunodeficiency which is one of the youngest child to receive bone marrow transplant in India. Till date Dr Kharya has done close to 700 transplants for various diseases along with his team members..

Dr Gaurav is of opinion that none of the children who needs treatment for cancer, immunological disease or bone marrow transplant should be refrained from treatment due to lack of funds. To fulfill this goal he has tie-ups with NGO’s which provide financial & social support to these kids & their families.

• Graduation - Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur Madhya Pradesh.
• Post-Graduation DCH in Pediatric from Baba Raghav Das Medical College, Gorakhpur, UP.
• In 2005 joined DNB in pediatric at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi and completed his training in 2007.
• In 2009 he joined his fellowship in Pediatric hemato-oncology & BMT at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital which he completed in 2011.

In 2011, he started working as a consultant in Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Immunology & BMT at Dr B L Kapur Memorial hospital where he was instrumental in starting pediatric hemato-oncology services and played a key role in taking the BMT programme to the next step. In September 2012 he moved to The Great north Children’s hospital, Newcastle upon tyne, United Kingdom to work as a fellow in pediatric hemato-oncology, immunology & bone marrow transplant. There he worked with the leading names in the field of pediatric hemato-oncology, immunology & bone marrow transplant. After working there for a year he moved to St Mary’s hospital, Imperial College NHS trust, London, United Kingdom to work more in the field of pediatric hematology and BMT. .

He moved back to India in March 2014 and joined back BLK super specialty hospital as a consultant pediatric hemato-oncology & BMT. Apart from pediatric acute leukemias, lymphomas, pediatric solid malignancies, he is keenly interested in hematopoietic stem cell transplant especially alternative donor transplants (Voluntary unrelated donor & Haplo-identical donor). Dr Kharya has a vast experience in transplanting children with various blood disorders benign or malignant, immunological diseases etc nationally and internationally.