Dr. Kharya is credited for doing the largest number of bone marrow transplants for SCD. He has developed various innovative protocols for haploidentical bone marrow transplants for sickle cell disease in India. To date, Dr. Kharya has done close to 1000 transplants for various diseases along with his team members. Dr. Kharya holds significant experience in bone marrow transplants for Sickle cell disease.
He and his team have done close to a hundred BMTs for SCD in the past 6-7 years including some of the most challenging transplants. He has a special interest and expertise in haploidentical transplants for SCD and other hematological and immunological diseases with very exciting and encouraging outcomes.
Apart from his routine clinical work he has a keen interest in research in cell and gene therapy to cure various human diseases. His areas of interest are CAR T cell therapy, gene manipulation strategies to cure hemoglobin disorders (viral vector and non-vector mediated), and virus-specific T cells to name a few.
