Darab Jehangir Jussawala (1915–1999)[citation needed] was an Indian medical-cum-surgical oncologist, medical writer and the director of Tata Memorial Centre.
[3] The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1975, for his contributions to Medicine.
[4] Darab Jussawala was born on 13 April 1915[citation needed] to Jehangir Bezonjee Jussawalla and Shirinbai in Bombay, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra and graduated in medicine in 1938 from Bombay University after which he secured a master's degree from the same university in 1942.
[7] The Indian Association of Surgical Oncology (IASO) (1977) and the Lady Ratan Tata Medical and Research Center (1984) were also reportedly established by Jussawala[7] and he was credited with the establishment of the first cytology laboratory and the first chemotherapy facility in India, both at Tata Memorial Centre.
[3] He served as a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Cancer and as the corresponding Fellow of Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland.