Balkrishna Jahagirdar

Assistant professor
Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation
HealthPartners Research Foundation
United States of America

Professor Haematology
Biography

Dr. Jahagirdar is a member of the Experimental Therapeutics Committee of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology to help design and conduct clinical trials of new cancer treatments throughout the United States, along with his colleagues from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Mayo Clinic and other institutions. He has co-written a book chapter in the Textbook of Malignant Hematology, and his research is published in such journals as Nature, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Blood, Experimental Hematology and Leukemia. Dr. Jahagirdar is president-elect of the Minnesota Society of Clinical Oncology. In addition, he has received several awards and honors, including the Clinical Excellence Award of University of Minnesota-Regions Hospital, Outstanding Clinical Mentor Awards for training of oncologists-hematologists, the National Cancer Institute's MMCCOP-Silver Certificate for contribution to clinical trials in oncology, Alpha-Omega-Alpha Honor Society, University of Minnesota Department of Medicine Fellow Research Award, and the Blood and Marrow Transplant Award.

Research Intrest

hematologic malignancies and solid tumors and has a special interest in early (novel) therapeutics and Phase 1 research.

List of Publications
Origin of endothelial progenitors in human postnatal bone marrow.
Reduced duration of cytopenias following melphalan conditioning and autografting for multiple myeloma.
Emerging fungal pathogens in patients with hematologic malignancies and marrow/stem-cell transplant recipients.
Pluripotency of mesenchymal stem cells derived from adult marrow.
Multipotent adult progenitor cell and stem cell plasticity.
Day 14 bone marrow biopsy in predicting complete remission and survival in acute myeloid leukemia.
Correction: Origin of endothelial progenitors in human postnatal bone marrow
Quantification of pain in sickle mice using facial expressions and body measurements.
Family history of colorectal cancer and its impact on survival in patients with resected stage III colon cancer: results from NCCTG Trial N0147 (Alliance).
E1308: Reduced-dose IMRT in human papilloma virus (HPV)-associated resectable oropharyngeal squamous carcinomas (OPSCC) after clinical complete response (cCR) to induction chemotherapy (IC).