India’s Amrita Hospital inaugurates CAR T Cell Therapy Centre

It will provide long-term remission for certain blood cancers.

Amrita Hospital has launched its Centre of Excellence in CAR T Cell Therapy.

“CAR-T cell therapy enables us to harness the power of our immune system to target cancer cells with precision, offering new hope to patients with previously untreatable conditions,” the hospital stated.

It added the groundbreaking approach can provide long-term remission for certain blood cancers.

Shri George Kurian, minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, and Minority Affairs, inaugurated the center.

“India is rapidly progressing in the health sector, and it is a great achievement that advanced treatments like CAR T Cell Therapy are now accessible to common people within our own country,” he said.

“Previously, leukemia patients had to rely on foreign countries for such treatments, which were prohibitively expensive. For the past 25 years, Amrita Hospital has been fulfilling Amma's wish to provide world-class treatment at affordable costs to everyone,” Kurian added.

The event was also attended by Dr. Prathapan Nair P., Chairman of Amrita Health Sciences; Dr. Damodaran Vasudevan, Dean of Health Sciences, Amrita Hospital Kochi; Dr. Shantikumar Nair, Dean of the School of Nanosciences & Molecular Medicine, Kochi; Dr. Vidya Jha, Medical Administrator; Shirish Arya, Drector Corporate Strategy & Business Development; and Dr. Neeraj Sidharthan, clinical professor and head of Clinical Haematology and Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy.