Faculty

•    Lead the FACT accreditation team at Ramaiah Memorial Hospital, which successfully achieved FACT accreditation for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation at Ramaiah Memorial Hospital, only the 2nd in the country to achieve this distinction.
•    Was awarded by Ramaiah Medical College for research Excellence in July 2021 for the highest research output from the medical college between 2019 and 2021.
•    Was elected Member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS), New Delhi, India, in April 2021.
•    Awarded the best performer in the EGFRm ECHO (Excellence in Communication of Health Care Outcome) Debate held on 26th September 2020 by Pfizer Inc
•    Awarded the ESMO Travelling fellowship in September 2018- Advanced Course on Clinical Questions in Prostate Cancer - Singapore, 21-22.9.2018.
•    Awarded the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) traveling fellowship in September 2017- Immuno-oncology, Preceptorship- Singapore.
•    Presented a paper named “Long-term Follow-up data of APML treated with a triple drug regimen-Real world data from a tertiary care Center” At the JC Patel Award Session of the HEMATOCON 2016.
•    ACORD Fellowship: Was awarded the ACORD fellowship to develop a clinical trial protocol at the 2014 Australia and Asia Pacific Clinical Oncology Research Development Workshop conducted in Sydney, Australia, 14-20 September 2014.
•    2nd Prize: In the quiz conducted at the Mumbai Hematology Group meet, Mumbai, March 2014.
•    Passed the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Exam conducted on 28th September 2013.
•    Winner: Dr Reddy’s Award: in an exam conducted for Postgraduates in Internal Medicine in the year 2009.

1.    Nationwide Survey of Azacitidine-Venetoclax Use in Indian Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Variability in Practice and the Need for Standardization. - in peer review
2.    Bridging the Gap Between Trials and Clinics: Real-World Outcomes with Azacitidine–Venetoclax in AML at a Single Center: Ramadevi Chakkapalli, Rasmi Palassery, Nishil Gowda, Vinayak Maka, Mouna B M, Deepa Dhanabalan, Sujitha Kannan, Santhosh Kumar Devadas- In peer review
3.    Kulkarni AM, Samprathi AH, Paladugu SH, Mouna BM, Devadas S, Saldanha S, et al. Treatment strategies for metastatic breast cancer: disparity between India and the West. Proc Indian Natl Sci Acad. 2025 Dec 10;1–12.
4.    Barriers to Genetic Counselling and Testing among Breast and Ovarian Cancer Patients in a Low-Middle-Income Country Referral Hospital: A Prospective Study Siripurapu Indraja, Gowda Nishil, Maka Vinayak V, Palassery Rasmi, M Mouna B, Devadas Santhosh Kumar- accepted for publication in Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development.
5.    Ramaswamy A, Prajapati R, Agarwala V, Singhal A, Syed NA,, Kumar Devadas S, Arora V, Pavithran K, Dubey A, Mehta A, Bhargava P, Kannan S, Rajappa SJ, Ostwal V. Practice Patterns and Outcomes in Advanced Colorectal Cancers from a Multi-Institutional Analysis: Real-World Evidence from India. JCO Glob Oncol. 2025 Nov;11: e2500356
6.    Jayaprakash, Parikshith; Maka, Vinayak; Pathak, Shuchita; Palassery, Rasmi; Dhanabalan, Deepa; Kannan, Sujita; Ankita, R; Devadas, Santhosh K; A retrospective analysis of patients with myelodysplastic syndrome at a South Indian tertiary care hospital using risk stratification tools, Cancer Research, Statistics, and Treatment 
8 (4), 263-268;2025
7.    Pathak S, Santhosh KD, Parikshith P, Palassery R, Maka VV. Safety and outcome analysis of preoperative chemoradiation in oesophageal carcinoma. Gulf J Oncol. 2025; 48:15-20.
8.    Pathak, S., Jayaprakash, P., Maka, V. V., Santhosh K D., & Majumdar, S. (2025). Distribution and outcomes of solid organ cancers in adolescents and young adults: experience from a tertiary cancer centre in South India. Journal of Current Oncology and Medical Sciences, 5(3), 1190–1196. 
9.    Dasharathy S, Pranay, Devadas SK, Tripathi E, Karyala P. Emerging role of Deubiquitinases in modulating cancer chemoresistance. Drug Discov Today. 2025 Apr;30(4):104339. doi: 10.1016/j.drudis.2025.104339. Epub 2025 Mar 19. PMID: 40118446.
10.    Minimal Residual Disease in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia and Its Relationship with Other Prognostic Factors. Chinmayee Agrawal, Sai Madhuri Boppana, Santhosh K Devdas, Vinayak V Maka, Nalini Kilara, Swaratika Majumdar, Rasmi Palassery; International Journal of Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Research 2025/1/21, 19(1) 37-42.
11.    Clinical study of ocular manifestations in patients with newly diagnosed and relapsed haematolymphoid malignancies at a tertiary care hospital. Honniganur, Deepthi Rameshbabu; Pradeep, Thanuja Gopal; Devadas, Santhosh Kumar Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology and Research 12(2):p 124-129, May–Aug 2024. | DOI: 10.4103/jcor.jcor_33_24
12.    MASCC vs CISNE SCORES COMPARISON IN FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA: Which is better? Sai Madhuri Boppana, Santhosh Kumar Devadas, Vinayak Maka, Nalini Kara, Rasmi Palassery. International Journal of Medicine & Public Health, 2023/10/1, Volume 13 Issue 4.
13.    Revannasiddiah S, Nagaraju PRVMA, Palassery R, Jagadish A, Maka VV, Kilara N, Rondelli D, Devadas SK. The limited use of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant for fit older patients with multiple myeloma in India: a retrospective analysis. J Egypt Natl Canc Inst. 2022 May 16;34(1):21. Doi: 10.1186/s43046-022-00123-6. PMID: 35570260.
14.    Treatment of multiple myeloma in the covid19 era: Experience from a tertiary care cancer center in India Gupta, I.; Palassery, R.; Maka, V.; Kilara, N.; Devadas, S. K. Indian Journal of Hematology and Blood Transfusion; 36(1 SUPPL): S135, 2020.
15.    Devadas, S.K., Jain, H., Bagal, B. et al. Sequential Treatment of Arsenic Trioxide Followed by All Trans Retinoic Acid with Anthracyclines has Excellent Long-Term Cure in Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia. Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus (2020). (Original article)
16.    Bodepudi SK, Devdas SK, Maka VV, Palassery R, Hiregoudar SS, Kilara N. Hypomethylating agents use in acute myeloid leukemia: A single‑canter experience. Indian J Med Paediatric Oncol 2020; 10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_155_19(Original Article).
17.    Revannasiddaiah S, Palassery R, Kumar Pant N, Maka VV, Devadas Santhosh Kumar. A potential role for cyclophosphamide in the mitigation of acute respiratory distress syndrome among patients with SARS-CoV-2 [published online ahead of print, 2020 May 23]. Med Hypotheses. 2020; 144:109850. Doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109850(Letter to editor)
18.    Revannasiddaiah S, Devadas SK, Maka VV. Osimertinib in EGFR-Mutated Advanced NSCLC. N Engl J Med. 2020;382(19):1864. doi:10.1056/NEJMc2001514(Letter to editor)
19.    Rasmi Palassery1, Santhosh Devadas1, Sumati Hiregouder2, Vinayak Maka1, Kalpana Kumari1, Nalini Kilara1, Damiano Rondelli3. "Development of a Clinical Haematology and Stem Cell Transplant Program to Provide State-of-the-Art and Cost-Effective Treatment to Patients: A Successful Collaboration between a Medical College in India and a Leading Medical University in the United States of America"(Original Article).
20.    Revannasiddaiah, Swaroop; Maka, Vinayak V; Devadas, Santhosh K; Clarifications sought for implications of PORTEC-3 in clinics. The Lancet Oncology;( 20) 11; e607; 2019(Letter to editor).
21.    Tandon, Nidhi; Devadas, Santhosh Kumar; Khanderia, Mansi; Changing landscape of induction therapy in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. Cancer Research, Statistics, and Treatment;(2)2;271;2019. (Letter to editor).
22.    Tandon, Nidhi; Khanderia, Mansi; Devadas, Santhosh Kumar; Panda eye sign on diffusion weighted-MRI for the diagnosis of methotrexate-induced subacute leukoencephalopathy. Cancer Research, Statistics, and Treatment;(2)2;263;2019. (Letter to editor).
23.    Revannasiddaiah, Swaroop; Maka, Vinayak V; Devadas, Santhosh Kumar; Tumour growth kinetics as a potential predictive and prognostic factor in carcinoma of the lung. Annals of translational medicine;(7)14;2019(Letter to editor).
24.    Revannasiddaiah, Swaroop; Gupta, Ishu; Devadas, Santhosh Kumar; Unlocking the potential with the use of check-point inhibitor immunotherapies in metastatic prostate cancer. Chinese Clinical Oncology; 8(Suppl 1): S13;2019(Letter to editor).

25.    Zanwar, S., Jain, P., Gokarn, A., Devadas, S. K., Punatar, S., Khurana, S., Bonda, A. Pruthy, R., Bhat, V., Qureshi, S. and Khattry, N. (2018), Antibiotic Lock Therapy for Salvage of Tunnelled Central Venous Catheters with Catheter Colonization and Catheter‐Related Bloodstream Infection. Transpl Infect Dis. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1111/tid.13017 (Original article)
26.    Devadas SK, Sripad Banavali. Retrospective Analysis of Outcomes of Patients with Relapsed, Refractory and Metastatic Sarcomas who have received Metronomic Chemotherapy. Gulf Journal of Oncology;(30);22-28 May 2019(Original article).

27.    Rondelli, D., Kun, T. L., Mathews, V., Gooneratne, L. V., Tuladhar, S., Neupane, S. Santhosh Kumar D, Poudyal, B. S. (2018). First Global Blood & Marrow Transplant [Global MT] Conference in Kathmandu with experiences from Nepal, India, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Journal of Global Health, 8(1), 010204. http://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.08.010204 (Original Article).
28.    Devadas SK, Toshniwal M, Bagal B, Khattry N. Successful Treatment of Transplant Associated Thrombotic Microangiopathy (TA-TMA) with Low Dose Defibrotide. Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus. 2017;(247). doi:10.1007/s12288-017-0904-y. (Original Article)
29.    Kilara, Nalini; Devadas, Santhosh Kumar; Janaki, MG; Paediatric Primary Spinal Glioblastoma Multiforme in Association with Congenital Malformations: A Case Report. Journal of Cancer Research & Therapeutics;(13);2017
30.    Devadas SK, Khairnar M, Hiregoudar SS, Khattry N et al. Is long term storage of cryopreserved stem cells for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation a worthwhile exercise in developing countries? - a single centre experience. Blood Res. 2017;52(4):03. (Original Article)
31.    Immunotherapy to the rescue in advanced RCC.KD Santhosh.oncologypro.esmo.org (case report)
32.     Devdas SK, Digumarti L, Digumarti R, Patro KC, Nutakki R. Isolated humeral recurrence in endometrial carcinoma. Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol. 2016;37(3):199-201. doi:10.4103/0971-5851.190363. (Original Article)
33.    Devadas SK, Bhat V, Khattry N. Subcutaneous infection caused by Blastoschizomyces capitatus post allogeneic hematopoietic transplant and its successful treatment with voriconazole. Transpl Infect Dis. May 2015. doi:10.1111/tid.12404. (Original Article)
34.     Devadas SK, K Prabhash.  Carcinomatous meningitis in non-small cell lung cancer: Palliation with intrathecal treatment. Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol. 2014;35(1):75-78. doi:10.4103/0971-5851.133726(Original Article).

• •    2016-Member Bangalore Hematology Group
  •    2016- Member Association of Medical Oncologists of India(AMOI)
  •    2015- Indian Society of Medical & Pediatric Oncology(ISMPO): Life Member.
  •    2014- Member European Society of Medical Oncology(ESMO).
  •    2017- Member American Society Of Hematology(ASH).
  •    Reviewer-Indian Journal Of Surgical Oncology