• Specialty: Medical Oncologist
• Qualification: MBBS, MD, FICP, MNAMS, FNAMS, Fellowships
• Experience: 43+ Years
• Location: Mumbai
• Hospital: Fortis S L Raheja Hospital

Prof. Dr. Suresh Advani is one of India's most well-known and regarded medical oncologists. Dr. Advani is a physician, pediatric-oncologist, and hemato-oncologist with 43 years of experience.

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

He then received a Fellowship in bone marrow transplantation from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, where he studied with Dr. E Donnall Thomas, known as the "Father of BMT" and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1990. In 1986, he was also awarded the Yamagiwa-Yoshida Memorial International Cancer Study Grant by the International Union Against Cancer.

Dr. Advani is credited with performing the first successful bone marrow transplant in India and building the first bone marrow transplantation setup in India. He also took part in clinical trials for patients with lymphoblastic leukemia. The trials, which included 1,200 patients, increased treatment success rates from 20% to 70%.

He has won the Indian government's highest civilian honors, the Padma Bhushan Award in 2012 and the Padma Shri Award in 2002. He also got the Dhanvantari Award in 2002, the Dr. B. C. Roy National Award from the Medical Council of India in 2005, the Rashtriya Krantiveer Award in Ujjain in 2014, and the Harvard Medical International Lifetime Achievement in Oncology in 2005.