Mammen Chandy

Mammen Chandy (born 30 August 1949)[1] is a former director of Tata Medical Center, Kolkata.

[citation needed] He did his fellowship in Hematology and Pathology at Westmead Center, Sydney, Australia[1] and obtained his FRACP and FRCPA in 1985.

[citation needed] After his fellowship, he rejoined the Department of Medicine at Christian Medical College and founded its clinical hematology unit.

[1] In Christian Medical College Vellore, Chandy was the first to do a bone marrow transplant on a patient with thalassemia in 1986.

[5] His team developed HLA laboratory, an assay for measuring Busufan levels by using the HPLC method, as well as establishing Diagnostic Molecular Biology tests for blood disorders.