Faculty
Contact
- Email vinayakvmaka@msrmc.ac.in
Dr. Vinayak V.Maka
Professor
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School
Medical College
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Department
Department of Medical Oncology
Dr. Vinayak V Maka is a senior Oncologist who teaches and practices at the Ramaiah Medical College. He is familiar with diagnosing and treating all types of malignancies and carrying out autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplantations. Dr. Maka and his team were instrumental in starting and securing approval for a sub specialty degree (DM) in medical oncology for students per year from 2016 and in starting the stem cell transplantation program in 2015. He has also been involved in various investigator-instigated and industry driven clinical research and also has multiple research grants for translational oncology including rectal cancer stem cells in collaboration with Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore under RGUHS research Grant.
Qualifications
- DM Medical Oncology
B J Medical College Gujarat University, 2012
- MD General Medicine
B J Medical College Gujarat University, 2008
- MBBS
Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, RGUHS University, 2004
Experience
Total Years of Experience20+ years in the medical field (since 2005) and over 15 years as a specialist (since 2012)
• Professor, Medical Oncology - April 2019 – Till Now
• Head of Department, Medical Oncology. April 2019 – June 2024
• Associate Professor, Medical Oncology. November 2016 – March 2019
• Assistant Professor, Medical Oncology. September 2012 –September 2016
Area of Expertise : .
Dr. Maka currently specializes in providing personalized cancer care in Gastrointestinal cancers, Urological cancers, Head and Neck cancers, Lung cancers, sarcoma, brain tumors and skin cancers.
● He has 24 publications in peer-reviewed, indexed journals, out of which ten are in international journals.
● He was awarded the first prize (Young ICON Research Grant), for the Best Thesis presentation at the 30th ICON at Ahmedabad in April 2014.
● He has also been selected and trained as Fellow in Haematology and BMT at Singapore General Hospital, from July to December 2015.
● He was selected to participate in the ESMO Sponsored Translational Research Unit visit at the Second University of Naples, Italy.
● Awarded MNAMS in Medical Oncology at the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry in India on 26th to 28th October, 2018.
● Multiple travel grants from ESMO to attend ESMO preceptorship on Colorectal Cancer in Singapore in March 2015,Gastric Cancer in Singapore in November 2015, NSCLC in Singapore in December 2015, and Prostate cancer in Singapore in November 2016
● Travel grant from ESO to attend ESO-ESMO-RCE Clinical Update on Rare Adult Solid Cancers at Milan 2016.
● He was selected for CReDO, an intensive oncology research protocol development workshop under TMH in 2018.
● He has also served as General Secretary of Association of Medical Oncologist of India -Karnataka chapter for 2017-2019
● In 2020, He started the Academic Medical Oncology program (AMOP), an annual student educational initiative to address practical needs of final year DM/DNB students in their final examinations.
● He was awarded Research Excellence Award by Ramaiah Medical College in July 2025 for the highest research output.
National Journal Papers
- An exploration of the applicability of the refined disease risk index and its integration with other independent risk factors for individualized prognostication, 2017, Bone marrow transplantation
- Chemotherapy induced early transient febrile neutropenia despite the use of pegylated granulocyte colony stimulating factor, Global Journal For Research Analysis, 2018
- Induction Chemotherapy in Unresectable or Locally Advanced Head and Neck Squamous Cell Cancer : A Single Center Retrospective Experience, 2018, Indian Journal of Cancer Education and Research
- 5 - Fluorouracil induced extravasation injury, 2020, Indian Journal of Cancer
- Epidemiology of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancers in a Tertiary Hospital in South India, 2021, Indian Journal of Medical & paediatric oncology
International Journal Papers
- Clinical Profile, Outcome and Application of MASCC Scoring in Febrile Neutropenic Patients, 2017, Archives in Cancer Research
- The future of lung cancer therapy: Striding beyond conventional EGFR and ALK treatments, 2019, Molecular And Clinical Oncology
- Clarifications sought for implications of PORTEC-3 in clinics, 2019, Lancet Oncology
- Development of clinical hematology and stem cell transplantation program to provide state-of-the-art and cost-effective treatment to patients : a successful collaboration between medical college in India and a leading medical university in the United States, 2019, BLOOD ADVANCES
- A potential role for cyclophosphamide in the mitigation of acute respiratory distress syndrome among patients with SARS-CoV-2, 2020, Medical Hypotheses
- Osimertinib in EGFR-mutated advanced NSCLC, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
- A Study Highlighting the Limited Use of Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant for Fit Elderly Patients with Multiple Myeloma in India, 2020
- Hypomethylating agents use in acute myeloid leukemia : A single-center experience, 2020, IJMPO
- Further clinical interpretation and implications of KEYNOTE-048 findings, 2020, The Lancet
- Clinical relevance of comprehensive genomic profiling for advanced cancers in India, 2021, Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Clinical Benefit of Comprehensive Genomic Profiling for Advanced Cancers in India, 2022, JCO Global Journal
- The limited use of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant for fit older patients with multiple myeloma in India: a retrospective analysis, 2022, Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute
● President, Association of Medical Oncologists in India(AMOI)
● General Secretary, Indian Society of Medical & Pediatric Oncology (ISMPO)
● Current member, ID 82241,ESMO
● Member, American Society of Clinical Oncology ASCO,2013
● Lifetime member, Indian Cooperative Oncology Network (ICON), 2014
● Lifetime member, Indian Society of Medical & Pediatric Oncology (ISMPO), 2014
● Lifetime member, Indian Society of oncology, 2018.
Experts Blog's
• The Times of India (2026): Expert insights on rising pancreatic cancer and challenges of late diagnosis
• India TV (2025): Debunked common cancer myths and misinformation in public discourse
• Moneycontrol (2025): Explained cancer staging and its impact on treatment outcomes
• Happiest Health (2025): Commentary on nutrition and protein intake in cancer care
• M3 India: Authored multiple expert blogs on hematology-oncology updates and global conference insights)
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