Balkrishna Jahagirdar, MD, is a board certified medical oncologist-hematologist. He is on the faculty of the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota, and serves as 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 country.
Dr. Jahagirdar has co-authored a book chapter in the Textbook of Malignant Hematology, and his research is published in prestigious journals, including Nature, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Blood, Experimental Hematology, and Leukemia.
He is a recipient of several awards and honors, including the Clinical Excellence Award of the University of Minnesota, Outstanding Clinical Mentor Award, National Cancer Institute's MetroMinnesota Community Clinical Oncology Program-Silver Certificate for his contribution to clinical trials in oncology, and the Blood and Marrow Transplant Award.