Dr. Umang G. Thakkar got his DCH (Paediatrics) from India and has 14.5 year experience in the field of regenerative medicine. Currently he is working 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 > 40 publications in various medical journals. He is included as editorial board member as well as reviewer in various journals. He wrote the book on stem cell therapy for glomerular diseases in Editions Universitaires Europeennes by Omni Scriptum GmbH & Co. KG; and also wrote a book chapter on Stem cell therapy for type-1 diabetes mellitus by Phuc Van Pham (Editor) in “Pancreas, Kidney and Skin Regeneration- STEM CELLS IN CLINICAL APPLICATION” (Springer international publishing AG 2017). He has also attended national and international conferences and presented the research papers. He 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: Stem cell therapy as an emerging modality for post-traumatic paraplegia and for renal parenchymal diseases. He has been selected as a Bentham Ambassador for 2019-2020 from Bentham Science Publishers of Quality Research.

Stem cell therapy for treatment of various neurological disorders, cardiac disorders, autoimmune diseases like type-1 diabetes mellitus, systemic lupus erythematous