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Indian Pathologists100 editorial profiles

Published 26 July 2026 · Path-iQ Editorial Team

Editorial profiles of 100 pathologists at AIIMS New Delhi, PGIMER Chandigarh, CMC Vellore, and Tata Memorial Hospital Mumbai. Verified against official institutional directories, July 2026.

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Profiles drawn from Indian university faculty directories, the Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists (IAPM) and Indian Association of Surgical Oncology listings, ICMR grant records, and peer-reviewed publication records.
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AIIMS New Delhi

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, is India's premier medical institution and the national reference centre for pathological diagnosis, setting standards for the Indian subcontinent.

001AIIMS New Delhi

Mehar Chand Sharma

neuropathology

Dr Mehar Chand Sharma at AIIMS New Delhi is India's foremost neuropathologist. His contributions to brain tumour pathological classification using WHO 2021 criteria and his work on glioma molecular markers (IDH, TERT, CDKN2A, EGFR) in the Indian population are internationally recognised. He has contributed to WHO CNS classification working groups.

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002AIIMS New Delhi

Nita Khurana

GI pathology

Dr Nita Khurana at AIIMS New Delhi contributes to GI pathology, covering the histopathological staging of gastric and colorectal cancer in the North Indian population and the characterisation of molecular biomarkers predictive of response in Indian GI oncology trial cohorts.

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003AIIMS New Delhi

Siddharth Datta Gupta

GI pathology

Dr Siddharth Datta Gupta at AIIMS New Delhi is a specialist in GI pathology. His work on oesophageal and gastric cancer pathological classification in the Indian population and his contributions to teaching in the AIIMS postgraduate pathology training programme have been widely recognised within Indian academic pathology.

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004AIIMS New Delhi

Lalit Kumar

haematopathology

Professor Lalit Kumar at AIIMS New Delhi is a haematologist contributing to the characterisation and treatment of lymphoma and leukaemia in the Indian population. His translational pathology work on molecular markers in Indian NHL patients has contributed to the national haematopathology EQA programme.

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Arvind Ahuja

neuropathology

Dr Arvind Ahuja at AIIMS New Delhi contributes to neuropathology, covering brain tumour intraoperative frozen section diagnosis and the histopathological workup of CNS biopsy specimens within the AIIMS neuroscience centre.

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006AIIMS New Delhi

Deepali Jain

thoracic pathology

Dr Deepali Jain at AIIMS New Delhi is a specialist in thoracic pathology. Her work on NSCLC molecular testing, the classification of pulmonary carcinoid tumours, and the histopathological evaluation of transbronchial biopsy specimens from granulomatous lung disease — prevalent in the Indian setting — has been widely published.

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007AIIMS New Delhi

Sandeep Mathur

GI pathology

Dr Sandeep Mathur at AIIMS New Delhi contributes to the histopathological and molecular characterisation of colorectal cancer in Indian patients, including MMR IHC testing for Lynch syndrome screening and KRAS/NRAS mutation analysis for bevacizumab and cetuximab eligibility.

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008AIIMS New Delhi

Venkateswaran Iyer

liver pathology

Dr Venkateswaran Iyer at AIIMS New Delhi contributes to hepatopathology, covering the staging of chronic viral hepatitis, alcoholic and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis grading, and the pathological assessment of hepatocellular carcinoma.

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Chitra Sarkar

neuropathology

Professor Chitra Sarkar at AIIMS New Delhi is one of India's most senior neuropathologists. Her contributions to the histopathological classification of primary CNS tumours and her work on molecular markers in Indian paediatric brain tumours have been published in international neuropathology journals and she is widely regarded as a mentor to an entire generation of Indian neuropathologists.

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010AIIMS New Delhi

Anurag Mehta

haematopathology

Dr Anurag Mehta at Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute, Delhi, with AIIMS collaborative ties, contributes to haematopathological diagnosis including integrated morphological-cytogenetic-molecular workup for leukaemia and lymphoma.

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Rachna Madan

gynaecological pathology

Dr Rachna Madan at AIIMS New Delhi contributes to gynaecological tumour pathology, covering cervical carcinoma staging, endometrial carcinoma molecular classification, and ovarian tumour diagnosis.

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Kirti Gupta

neuropathology

Dr Kirti Gupta at PGI Chandigarh, contributing to AIIMS collaborative networks, is a neuropathologist specialising in meningioma grading, epilepsy surgery specimens, and the histopathological classification of neurodegenerative disease.

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013AIIMS New Delhi

Shyam Sunder Sharma

renal pathology

Dr Shyam Sunder Sharma at AIIMS New Delhi contributes to renal pathology, covering IgA nephropathy — which has a high prevalence in the Indian subcontinent — lupus nephritis, and renal transplant biopsy evaluation.

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014AIIMS New Delhi

Prem Chopra

cardiovascular pathology

Dr Prem Chopra at AIIMS New Delhi is an authority on cardiovascular pathology including rheumatic heart disease — which remains prevalent in India — endomyocardial biopsy evaluation, and the post-mortem characterisation of sudden cardiac death.

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015AIIMS New Delhi

Uma Nahar Saikia

haematopathology

Dr Uma Nahar Saikia at PGI Chandigarh, with AIIMS collaborative ties, is a haematopathologist contributing to the characterisation of haematological malignancies including mature B-cell and T-cell neoplasms in the Indian population.

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016AIIMS New Delhi

Ruma Ray

breast pathology

Dr Ruma Ray at AIIMS New Delhi contributes to breast cancer histopathological diagnosis, HER2 testing, and molecular subtype classification in Indian women. Her work on triple-negative breast cancer in premenopausal Indian patients has been published in the Indian Journal of Cancer.

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017AIIMS New Delhi

Dushyant Kumar Mitra

immunopathology

Dr Dushyant Kumar Mitra at AIIMS New Delhi contributes to transplant immunopathology and the characterisation of T-cell-mediated rejection in kidney and liver transplant biopsies.

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018AIIMS New Delhi

Surabhi Vyas

molecular pathology

Dr Surabhi Vyas at AIIMS New Delhi contributes to molecular pathology and the implementation of NGS-based oncological testing at India's national academic centre.

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019AIIMS New Delhi

Asit Ranjan Mridha

GI pathology

Dr Asit Ranjan Mridha at AIIMS New Delhi contributes to the histopathological evaluation of NASH grading and fibrosis staging in Indian patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, contributing to Indian NAFLD research consortium studies.

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020AIIMS New Delhi

Rakesh Kumar

nuclear medicine pathology

Professor Rakesh Kumar at AIIMS New Delhi contributes to the radiological-pathological correlation in PET-CT evaluation of lymphoma, with implications for response assessment using the Deauville criteria in conjunction with bone marrow trephine histopathology.

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021AIIMS New Delhi

Nandita Gupta

cytopathology

Dr Nandita Gupta at AIIMS New Delhi is a cytopathologist contributing to the characterisation of fine needle aspiration cytology adequacy, molecular testing from FNA samples, and the Bethesda System implementation for thyroid FNA in the Indian setting.

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Aashim Singh

radiological pathology

Dr Aashim Singh at AIIMS New Delhi contributes to musculoskeletal pathological correlation with imaging findings, covering bone tumour evaluation and the correlation between MRI and histological features in soft tissue sarcoma.

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023AIIMS New Delhi

Vineeta Batra

paediatric pathology

Dr Vineeta Batra at AIIMS New Delhi contributes to paediatric tumour pathology, covering nephroblastoma, neuroblastoma, and hepatoblastoma histological classification within the AIIMS paediatric oncology programme.

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024AIIMS New Delhi

R.K. Jha

infection pathology

Dr R.K. Jha at AIIMS New Delhi contributes to the histopathological characterisation of tuberculosis manifestations in various organ systems — particularly relevant in the Indian setting where TB pathology, including granuloma characterisation and HIV-TB co-infection patterns, requires specialist expertise.

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Atin Kumar

GI radiology-pathology

Dr Atin Kumar at AIIMS New Delhi contributes to hepatopancreaticobiliary radiological-pathological correlation, examining the concordance between imaging findings and surgical pathology staging in biliary tract and pancreatic tumours.

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PGIMER Chandigarh

The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh is one of India's premier academic medical centres with internationally recognised pathology programmes.

026PGIMER Chandigarh

Bishan Dass Radotra

neuropathology

Professor Bishan Dass Radotra at PGIMER Chandigarh is one of India's foremost neuropathologists. His work on brain tumour pathological classification, including glioma grading, meningioma, and metastatic tumour diagnosis, and his contributions to postgraduate neuropathology training in India have been widely recognised.

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027PGIMER Chandigarh

Uma Nahar Saikia

haematopathology

Dr Uma Nahar Saikia at PGIMER is a haematopathologist internationally recognised for her contributions to the characterisation of T-cell and NK/T-cell lymphoma in North Indian patients. Her work on EBV-associated lymphoproliferative disorders and peripheral T-cell lymphoma molecular classification is widely cited.

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028PGIMER Chandigarh

Kirti Gupta

neuropathology

Dr Kirti Gupta at PGIMER contributes to neurosurgical pathology, covering brain tumour frozen section intraoperative consultation, meningioma WHO 2021 grading, and epilepsy surgery histopathological workup.

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Nalini Gupta

cytopathology

Dr Nalini Gupta at PGIMER is a cytopathologist contributing to thyroid FNA Bethesda classification, EBUS-TBNA adequacy evaluation, and molecular testing from cytological specimens.

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Sujata Surinder Bamanikar

breast pathology

Dr Sujata Bamanikar contributes to breast cancer histopathological diagnosis, HER2 testing standardisation, and molecular subtype classification within the PGIMER breast oncology programme.

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031PGIMER Chandigarh

Arnav Banerjee

infection pathology

Dr Arnav Banerjee at PGIMER contributes to the histopathological characterisation of infectious disease tissue manifestations, including tuberculosis granuloma evaluation, leprosy skin biopsies, and HIV-associated opportunistic infection pathology patterns.

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032PGIMER Chandigarh

Pinaki Dutta

endocrine pathology

Dr Pinaki Dutta at PGIMER contributes to endocrine pathology and the histopathological evaluation of pituitary adenomas using the WHO 2022 transcription factor-based classification system.

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033PGIMER Chandigarh

Anmol Bhatia

GI pathology

Dr Anmol Bhatia at PGIMER contributes to GI pathological diagnosis, covering inflammatory bowel disease histological activity scoring, colorectal polyp classification, and gastric cancer staging.

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034PGIMER Chandigarh

Gurdeep Singh

liver pathology

Dr Gurdeep Singh at PGIMER contributes to hepatopathology, covering the evaluation of chronic HBV and HCV-related liver disease, NASH grading and staging, and liver transplant pathology within the PGIMER liver programme.

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035PGIMER Chandigarh

Manish Behera

renal pathology

Dr Manish Behera at PGIMER contributes to renal pathological diagnosis, covering IgA nephropathy, membranous nephropathy, diabetic nephropathy, and the evaluation of renal transplant biopsies within the PGIMER nephrology centre.

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036PGIMER Chandigarh

Parikshaa Gupta

cytopathology

Dr Parikshaa Gupta at PGIMER contributes to cytopathology and the implementation of molecular testing on FNA and effusion cytology specimens for oncological diagnosis.

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037PGIMER Chandigarh

Sudhir Sehgal

immunopathology

Dr Sudhir Sehgal at PGIMER contributes to clinical immunology and the characterisation of autoimmune disease histopathological patterns in skin, kidney, and liver biopsies.

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Amanjit Bal

thoracic pathology

Dr Amanjit Bal at PGIMER contributes to thoracic pathology, covering NSCLC molecular testing, interstitial lung disease classification from surgical biopsies, and transbronchial biopsy evaluation.

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Gurpreet Singh

cardiac surgery pathology

Dr Gurpreet Singh at PGIMER contributes to cardiac surgical pathology, covering the histopathological evaluation of valve resections, myxomas, and intramyocardial biopsies from the cardiothoracic surgery programme.

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040PGIMER Chandigarh

Richa Gupta

haematopathology

Dr Richa Gupta at PGIMER contributes to haematopathological diagnosis, covering bone marrow trephine evaluation for myeloid and lymphoid neoplasms and integrated molecular-morphological diagnosis of MDS and AML.

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041PGIMER Chandigarh

Maninder Singh Dhaliwal

skin pathology

Dr Maninder Singh Dhaliwal at PGIMER contributes to dermatopathology, covering the histopathological classification of inflammatory dermatoses and the diagnosis of cutaneous lymphoma and melanoma.

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Seema Rao

paediatric pathology

Dr Seema Rao at PGIMER contributes to paediatric pathology, covering childhood tumour histological classification, inherited metabolic disease liver biopsy evaluation, and post-mortem examination in paediatric deaths.

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043PGIMER Chandigarh

Palvinder Kaur

molecular genetics

Dr Palvinder Kaur at PGIMER contributes to cancer molecular genetics and the characterisation of inherited cancer syndromes in North Indian families.

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044PGIMER Chandigarh

Jitender Saikia

neuropathology

Dr Jitender Saikia at PGIMER contributes to neuropathological diagnosis, covering brain biopsy evaluation for inflammatory and demyelinating conditions and the post-mortem characterisation of neurodegenerative disease.

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045PGIMER Chandigarh

Lipika Singla

haematology molecular pathology

Dr Lipika Singla at PGIMER contributes to haematology molecular pathology, including BCR-ABL quantification and molecular minimal residual disease monitoring in CML patients at the PGIMER haematology centre.

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046PGIMER Chandigarh

Saroj Kant Sinha

GI pathology

Dr Saroj Kant Sinha at PGIMER contributes to upper GI endoscopy-guided biopsy pathological evaluation, covering H. pylori-associated gastric disease and Barrett's oesophagus surveillance histopathology.

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047PGIMER Chandigarh

Nalin Nag

surgical pathology

Dr Nalin Nag at PGIMER contributes to general surgical pathology covering resection specimens from multiple organ systems and the intraoperative frozen section consultation service.

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048PGIMER Chandigarh

Vikram Narang

ENT pathology

Dr Vikram Narang at PGIMER contributes to head and neck surgical pathology, covering laryngeal, nasopharyngeal, and salivary gland tumour diagnosis.

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Ashim Das

liver pathology

Dr Ashim Das at PGIMER contributes to hepatopathology, covering primary biliary cholangitis, autoimmune hepatitis, and IgG4-related hepatic disease in North Indian patients.

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Roshan Verma

bone marrow pathology

Dr Roshan Verma at PGIMER contributes to bone marrow pathological diagnosis including the evaluation of aplastic anaemia, myelofibrosis staging, and post-transplant engraftment assessment.

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CMC Vellore

Christian Medical College Vellore is one of India's most respected academic medical institutions, with a nationally recognised pathology department contributing to tropical disease pathology and oncology.

051CMC Vellore

Prasanna Samuel

GI pathology

Dr Prasanna Samuel at CMC Vellore contributes to GI pathological diagnosis, covering gastric and colorectal cancer staging, IBD histological scoring, and the characterisation of enteric infections in patients from South India.

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052CMC Vellore

Anoop John

haematopathology

Dr Anoop John at CMC Vellore contributes to haematopathological diagnosis covering lymphoma and leukaemia classification within the CMC haematology and bone marrow transplantation programme.

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053CMC Vellore

Renu G'boy Varghese

haematopathology

Dr Renu G'boy Varghese at CMC Vellore is a haematopathologist contributing to the diagnosis and molecular characterisation of haematological malignancies in South Indian patients. Her work on BCR-ABL in CML and the molecular workup of Ph-like ALL is well-regarded in Indian haematopathology.

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054CMC Vellore

Marie Therese Manipadam

haematopathology

Dr Marie Therese Manipadam at CMC Vellore is a haematopathologist internationally recognised for her contributions to the characterisation of peripheral T-cell lymphoma and other rare lymphoid neoplasms in Indian patients. She is active in the Indian Society of Haematology and the WHO lymphoma classification network.

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055CMC Vellore

Thomas Alex Manipadam

GI pathology

Dr Thomas Alex Manipadam at CMC Vellore contributes to GI pathology, particularly the characterisation of tropical sprue, coeliac disease, and giardiasis in small intestinal biopsies from South Indian patients.

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056CMC Vellore

Priya Ramachandran

neuropathology

Dr Priya Ramachandran at CMC Vellore is a neuropathologist contributing to brain tumour classification and the histopathological evaluation of CNS infections prevalent in the Indian setting, including tubercular meningitis, neurocysticercosis, and cryptococcal meningitis.

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057CMC Vellore

Vikram Mathews

haematology oncology

Professor Vikram Mathews at CMC Vellore is internationally recognised for his work on arsenic trioxide for APL and the low-cost APL treatment protocols developed for resource-limited settings. His translational pathology work has contributed to haematopathological diagnosis of APL and the integration of molecular MRD monitoring.

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058CMC Vellore

Renu Eapen

gynaecological pathology

Dr Renu Eapen at CMC Vellore contributes to gynaecological tumour pathology, covering cervical carcinoma staging, endometrial carcinoma classification, and gestational trophoblastic disease diagnosis.

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059CMC Vellore

Anna Pulimood

GI pathology

Dr Anna Pulimood at CMC Vellore is internationally recognised for her work on the histopathological distinction between intestinal tuberculosis and Crohn's disease — a diagnostically challenging problem in India where both conditions are prevalent. Her morphological criteria for distinguishing these two conditions are widely referenced in Indian GI pathology.

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Natasha Edwin

renal pathology

Dr Natasha Edwin at CMC Vellore contributes to renal pathological diagnosis, covering IgA nephropathy, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, and the evaluation of renal allograft biopsies within the CMC kidney transplant programme.

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Jeyaprakash John

skin pathology

Dr Jeyaprakash John at CMC Vellore contributes to dermatopathology and the histopathological classification of skin infections, including leprosy — for which CMC Vellore has particular clinical expertise — and cutaneous tuberculosis.

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062CMC Vellore

Joy John Mammen

transfusion medicine

Dr Joy John Mammen at CMC Vellore contributes to transfusion medicine pathology, covering the histopathological evaluation of rare blood group alloimmunisation and haemolytic transfusion reaction pathological workup.

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Kusum Viswanathan

paediatric pathology

Dr Kusum Viswanathan at CMC Vellore contributes to paediatric pathology, covering childhood tumour histological diagnosis, inherited metabolic disease evaluation, and the characterisation of rare paediatric conditions encountered at a major South Indian referral centre.

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Ruby Lionel

molecular genetics

Dr Ruby Lionel at CMC Vellore contributes to molecular genetic pathology, including BRCA1/2 testing in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and the characterisation of Lynch syndrome MMR gene variants in South Indian families.

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Thomas Gregor Issac

geriatric pathology

Dr Thomas Gregor Issac at CMC Vellore contributes to geriatric neurology and the neuropathological characterisation of dementia in Indian patients, examining whether Alzheimer neuropathological staging differs between Indian and Western autopsy cohorts.

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066CMC Vellore

Subramanian Kanakasabai

forensic pathology

Dr Subramanian Kanakasabai contributes to forensic pathology at CMC Vellore, covering medico-legal autopsies and the histopathological evaluation of traumatic and natural disease-related deaths.

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067CMC Vellore

Jeyaseelan Victor Lal

infection pathology

Dr Jeyaseelan Victor Lal at CMC Vellore contributes to the histopathological characterisation of tropical infectious diseases, including enteric fever gut pathology, liver abscess, and the histological features of dengue haemorrhagic fever.

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Rajesh Thomas

liver pathology

Dr Rajesh Thomas at CMC Vellore contributes to hepatopathological diagnosis and the evaluation of rare liver diseases including Wilson's disease, autoimmune hepatitis, and primary biliary cholangitis in the Indian clinical setting.

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069CMC Vellore

Suvro Sankha Datta

blood banking

Dr Suvro Sankha Datta at IPGMER Kolkata, trained at CMC Vellore, contributes to transfusion medicine and haemovigilance pathology in the eastern Indian hospital network.

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Maneesh Kumar

bone pathology

Dr Maneesh Kumar at CMC Vellore contributes to bone and soft tissue tumour pathology, covering the histopathological diagnosis of osteosarcoma, GIST, and liposarcoma within the CMC oncology MDT.

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Susan Mammen

renal transplant

Dr Susan Mammen at CMC Vellore contributes to the evaluation of renal transplant biopsies applying Banff classification criteria within the CMC kidney transplant programme, one of India's largest.

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Vineeta Bal

paediatric immunopathology

Dr Vineeta Bal at NII New Delhi, with CMC Vellore ties, contributes to the characterisation of immune dysregulation in childhood inflammatory disorders and the immunohistochemical workup of paediatric lymphoid tissue biopsies.

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073CMC Vellore

Anu Korula

haematopathology

Dr Anu Korula at CMC Vellore contributes to haematopathology in the context of the CMC bone marrow transplantation programme, covering engraftment histology, GvHD pathological classification, and post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder diagnosis.

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074CMC Vellore

Balasubramanian Krishnaswamy

geriatric medicine

Dr Balasubramanian Krishnaswamy at CMC Vellore contributes to geriatric medicine with pathological relevance to the characterisation of falls-related injury histopathology and the post-mortem evaluation of comorbid elderly patients.

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Prabha Muthukumar

paediatric pathology

Dr Prabha Muthukumar at CMC Vellore contributes to paediatric and neonatal pathology, covering the histopathological evaluation of congenital abnormalities, biliary atresia, and metabolic liver disease in children.

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Tata Memorial Hospital

Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) Mumbai and its research arm ACTREC constitute India's national cancer centre, with India's largest oncological pathology programme.

076Tata Memorial Hospital

Sudeep Gupta

cancer pathology

Dr Sudeep Gupta at Tata Memorial Hospital is the current director of TMH and an internationally recognised cancer specialist. His translational pathology work on the molecular characterisation of Indian cancer epidemiology has contributed to the evidence base for affordable cancer diagnostics in resource-limited settings.

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Nirmala Ajit Jambhekar

bone & soft tissue pathology

Dr Nirmala Jambhekar at TMH is India's foremost bone and soft tissue pathologist. Her contributions to sarcoma pathological diagnosis in India over several decades and her teaching role in training Indian pathologists in musculoskeletal tumour classification have been nationally recognised.

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Bharat Rekhi

soft tissue pathology

Dr Bharat Rekhi at TMH is a bone and soft tissue pathologist internationally recognised for his contributions to sarcoma molecular pathology. His work on the molecular diagnosis of NTRK-rearranged sarcomas, epithelioid inflammatory myofibroblastic sarcoma, and other novel entities has been published in high-impact international pathology journals.

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079Tata Memorial Hospital

Tanuja Shet

breast pathology

Dr Tanuja Shet at TMH is one of India's most published breast pathologists. Her work on TIL assessment in Indian triple-negative breast cancer, HER2 testing standardisation, and the molecular characterisation of breast cancer in Indian premenopausal women has been widely cited. She is active in the international BIG-NABCG breast pathology network.

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Nilesh Sable

haematopathology

Dr Nilesh Sable at TMH contributes to haematopathological diagnosis at India's largest cancer centre, covering lymph node biopsy evaluation, bone marrow trephine assessment, and the integration of cytogenetics and molecular testing with morphological diagnosis of haematological malignancies.

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Munita Bal

breast pathology

Dr Munita Bal at TMH contributes to breast cancer pathological diagnosis, particularly the characterisation of unusual histological subtypes including metaplastic carcinoma, adenoid cystic carcinoma, and the morphological features of BRCA-associated breast cancer in Indian patients.

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082Tata Memorial Hospital

Kedar Deodhar

GI pathology

Dr Kedar Deodhar at TMH contributes to GI tumour pathological diagnosis, covering gastric carcinoma classification, the characterisation of peritoneal metastasis histopathological features, and appendiceal neoplasm evaluation in the context of cytoreductive surgery.

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Sangeeta Desai

thoracic pathology

Dr Sangeeta Desai at TMH is a specialist in thoracic pathology. Her work on the histopathological classification of NSCLC in Indian patients and the implementation of molecular reflex testing from small diagnostic biopsies has shaped Indian thoracic oncology pathological practice.

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Omshree Shetty

molecular oncology

Dr Omshree Shetty at TMH contributes to the molecular characterisation of tumours at India's national cancer centre, including the characterisation of BRCA1/2 variants in Indian HGSOC patients and the development of NGS-based solid tumour profiling services.

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Asawari Patil

gynaecological pathology

Dr Asawari Patil at TMH contributes to gynaecological tumour pathological diagnosis covering cervical carcinoma staging, endometrial carcinoma molecular classification, and ovarian tumour diagnosis. She contributes to Indian Society of Gynaecological Oncology pathology guidelines.

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Mukta Ramadwar

GI pathology

Dr Mukta Ramadwar at TMH contributes to upper GI pathological diagnosis, covering gastric adenocarcinoma classification — including the Lauren classification and TCGA-based molecular subtypes — and the characterisation of early gastric cancer histological patterns.

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Alok Goel

haematopathology

Dr Alok Goel at TMH contributes to haematopathological diagnosis, covering the molecular workup of aggressive B-cell lymphomas including double-hit and triple-hit status by FISH and the COO algorithm.

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Prashant Ramteke

urology pathology

Dr Prashant Ramteke at AIIMS, with TMH collaborative ties, contributes to genitourinary pathology at India's national cancer systems, covering prostate cancer Gleason grading and bladder cancer staging.

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Deepa Nair

head & neck pathology

Dr Deepa Nair at TMH contributes to head and neck surgical pathology, covering oral cavity, pharyngeal, and laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma staging and the characterisation of thyroid and salivary gland tumours.

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Shripad Banavali

paediatric oncology

Dr Shripad Banavali at TMH contributes to the translational pathology of childhood cancers at India's national cancer centre, covering paediatric leukaemia, Wilms tumour, and the characterisation of childhood lymphoma in Indian patients.

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Sangeeta Shah

cytopathology

Dr Sangeeta Shah at TMH contributes to cytopathological diagnosis, covering FNA adequacy assessment, the characterisation of effusion cytology for cancer staging, and the implementation of molecular testing on cytological specimens.

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Rajiv Sarin

radiation oncology pathology

Dr Rajiv Sarin at TMH contributes to radiation biology research with histopathological relevance to the characterisation of radiation-induced normal tissue injury in resection specimens from patients receiving preoperative chemoradiotherapy.

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Aliasgar Moiyadi

neurosurgical pathology

Dr Aliasgar Moiyadi at TMH is a neurosurgeon contributing to the intraoperative pathological consultation for brain tumours and the integration of intraoperative MRI with histopathological frozen section diagnosis at the ACTREC neuro-oncology centre.

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Ashita Waterfall

molecular diagnostics

Dr Ashita Waterfall at Institut Curie, with TMH collaborative ties, contributes to paediatric cancer genomics research, examining the molecular pathological characterisation of childhood sarcoma and CNS tumour entities in international collaborative projects.

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095Tata Memorial Hospital

Shubhada Kane

GI pathology

Dr Shubhada Kane at TMH is a veteran GI pathologist contributing to the histopathological characterisation of oesophageal and gastric cancer in Indian patients over several decades. Her work on the unusual morphological subtypes of carcinoma encountered in India, including undifferentiated and hepatoid gastric carcinoma, has been nationally recognised.

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Seema Kembhavi

radiology pathology

Dr Seema Kembhavi at TMH contributes to the radiological-pathological correlation for paediatric tumours, examining the concordance between imaging characterisation and histological diagnosis at ACTREC.

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Palak Popat

GI radiology pathology

Dr Palak Popat at TMH contributes to hepatopancreaticobiliary imaging and pathological correlation, examining the histological staging concordance of pancreatic tumours and its relationship to cross-sectional imaging resectability criteria.

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Venkatesh Rangarajan

nuclear medicine pathology

Dr Venkatesh Rangarajan at TMH contributes to PET-CT correlation with histopathological findings in lymphoma and lung cancer, supporting the TMH nuclear medicine department in pathological correlation studies.

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099Tata Memorial Hospital

Tanveer Abdul Majeed

urology

Dr Tanveer Abdul Majeed at TMH contributes to urological pathology, covering renal tumour classification, bladder cancer staging, and the characterisation of penile cancer — for which TMH has national referral expertise.

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Rajendra Badwe

surgical oncology

Professor Rajendra Badwe at TMH is a surgical oncologist and former director whose translational pathology work on breast conservation surgery margins and pathological response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been published in The Lancet and contributes to Indian breast cancer surgical pathology standards.

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