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Umang Gunvantray Thakkar

Associate professor, Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy · Institute of Kidney Disease and Research Centre and Institute of Transplantation Sciences (IKDRC-ITS)

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33Scopus Publications

Research Interests

Cell Therapy, stem cell

Biography

Dr. Umang G Thakkar got his DCH (Paediatrics) from India and has 15 year experience in the field of regenerative medicine. Currently he is working as an Associate Professor at G.R. Doshi and K.M. Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases & Research Centre (IKDRC) - Dr. H.L. Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences (ITS), Ahmedabad, India. His research interests are stem cell therapy for treatment of various neurological disorders, cardiac disorders, autoimmune diseases like Type-1 diabetes mellitus, systemic lupus erythematous etc. He has > 50 publications in various medical journals. He is included as an editorial board member in various journals and a reviewer also. He also received the Government Scholarship and distinguished Awards in the past. He was granted a Young Investigator Award in TTS 2016 at HONG KONG, for his research paper on "Stem cell therapy". He became the Ambassador of Bentham Science Publishers of Quality Research for 2019-2020.

Education

SSC : Gujarat Secondary Education Board- 1994 HSSC : Gujarat Higher Secondary Education Board- 1996 MBBS : M P Shah Medical College, Jamnagar, Saurashtra University- 2001 DCH : M P Shah Medical College, Jamnagar, Saurashtra University- 2004 CCC+ : SPIPA, Ahmedabad, 2019. BCBR : Basic Course in Biomedical Research by ICMR-NIE, National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL- Chennai), Ahmedabad, 25th February, 2024. MET : Revised Basic Course Workshop in Medical Education Technology (MET), Pramukhswami Medical College, NMC nodal Centre, Karamsad, 2024.

Recent Scopus Publications

  1. A new report under the spotlight: FATCO syndrome phenotype with an absent uvula and acyanotic congenital heart diseases in an Indian female newborn: Variant of FATCO syndrome
    Journal of Neonatal Nursing, 2024
  2. Thrombotic microangiopathy in a renal allograft: Single-center five-year experience
    Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation, 2020
  3. Bone mineral changes after renal transplantation
    Kuwait Medical Journal, 2019
  4. Urinary Screening for Early Detection of Kidney Diseases
    Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2018
  5. Newborn with absent thumb and imperforate anus in absence of familial context- Is it Holt-Oram syndrome?
    Journal of Neonatal Nursing, 2018

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