Vinod Pullarkat, MD, MRCP, is Professor in the Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation at City of Hope National Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Pullarkat's clinical expertise is in the treatment of acute leukemia and other bone marrow neoplasms, including the use of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. He received his medical degree from University of Calicut, India, and undertook fellowship training in Hematology/Oncology at the University of Southern California, following which he served as Faculty in the Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation at City of Hope Medical Center and at the University of Southern California. Dr. Pullarkat's research focuses especially on the biology of acute leukemia, including mechanisms of chemotherapy resistance, and the development of new therapies for acute leukemia. He has been Principal Investigator on various leukemia clinical trials and has published extensively in the fields of acute leukemia biology and therapy as well as hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

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