Hematologist Oncologist Akash Mukherjee, M.D., Joins UAMS Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program
| LITTLE ROCK — Fellowship-trained hematologist oncologist Akash Mukherjee, M.D., has joined the Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
He sees patients at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and specializes in allogeneic and autologous stem cell transplantation. Allogeneic stem cell transplantation involves transplanting healthy stem cells obtained from a donor to treat patients with lymphomas, leukemias and other blood disorders. Autologous transplants involve collecting stem cells from a patient’s own bone marrow or blood to be infused into the patient and is used to treat multiple myeloma, relapsed lymphoma and other blood disorders.
He also specializes in CAR-T cellular therapy used to treat various malignant hematological disorders.
Mukherjee serves as an assistant professor in the UAMS College of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology.
After graduating from Maulana Azad Medical College in New Delhi, India, one of the country’s premier medical schools, Mukherjee completed his residency in internal medicine at Georgetown University/Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C.
He received specialized training in two fellowship programs: the three-year Hematology-Oncology Fellowship at Houston Methodist Hospital, where he served as chief fellow, and the one-year Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Mukherjee’s research examines the clinical outcomes of allogeneic transplant patients, including factors such as post-transplant hemorrhagic cystitis, pretransplant use of novel small molecule inhibitors in acute leukemia and lymphoma, clinical outcome of post-transplant cyclophosphamide-based haploidentical stem cell transplant in lymphoma patients, in vivo anti-thymocyte globulin based matched unrelated donor transplant, and post allogeneic transplant iron overload, among other areas.
He is board certified in hematology, oncology and internal medicine and is a member of the American College of Physicians, American Society of Hematology, American Society of Clinical Oncology and American Society of Bone Marrow Transplantation.
The UAMS Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program is accredited by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy and is Arkansas’ only adult transplant program of its type.
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