Monica Bhatia
Monica Bhatia (CAS’92) of New York, N.Y., directs the stem cell transplant program at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian and Columbia University Medical Center. She researches stem cell transplantation for patients with sickle cell disease and has helped develop a reduced toxicity conditioning regimen, where the cure rates at Columbia University Medical Center are 100 percent in those with sibling donors. Since only about 15 percent of patients with sickle cell disease have a matched sibling donor, Monica is also concentrating on unrelated donor transplants. Monica is chair of the new Sickle Cell Transplant Alliance for Research, a multicenter organization that seeks to improve the cure and make it available to more children and young adults with sickle cell disease.
From the Fall 2016 issue.