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Dhananjaya Saranath

Executive Director

Cancer Patients Aid Association

India

Biography

Dr. Dhananjaya Saranath, Ph.D., FMAS (Fellow of the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences), M.Sc., M.T (American Association of Clinical Pathologist), is currently on the Board of an NGO with a focus on Health, Swasthy Vriksha Foundation, based in Nagpur as an Advisory. Her post-doctoral project on immunological and molecular aspect of Burkitts lymphoma were under the guidance of Prof. George and Eva Klein.  Karolinska Institute, Sweden, Further studies were with Prof. Ian McGrath, at NIH, USA, Max-Delbruck Centre, Germany, Imperial Cancer Research Fund with eminent Scientists. She has extensive experience in Molecular Oncology and experience in Oncology as Head, Laboratory of Cancer Genes, Cancer Research Institute, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India.   She was a Member-at-Large, Council of the International Academy of Oral Oncology; Assessor, National Accreditation Board of Laboratory & Calibration testing, India, and College of American Pathologists, USA; and Past President of the Indian Association of Cancer Research. She has done pioneering studies on molecular basis of oral cancer, and preventive aspects in cervical cancer translating HPV vaccination, HPV screening, cancer awareness in rural school girls and women. She and her team successfully completed HPV vaccination in 30,000 girls and adult women in the past five years, and trained a team to continue the work. She has been awarded several National and International awards, with the most recent being the ‘Mahatma Award for Life Time Achievement’, 2022, for her contribution to Cancer Care & Elimination of Cervical Cancer in Indian women by Primary Prevention of HPV Vaccination (HPV), October 2022.  She has successfully mentored 25 students towards their Ph.D. degree from Bombay University, edited a book ‘Contemporary Issues in Oral Cancer’ Oxford Press, 2000, contributed several chapters and authored 125 publications in peer reviewed international and national journals.

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