Niloy Ranjan Datta

Prof. Dr. N. R. Datta is the Director-Professor and Head, Department of Radiotherapy and joined MGIMS in January 2021. He has a rich experience of over 40 years in the field of clinical and radiation oncology, both nationally and internationally. Before joining MGIMS, he was associated with the establishment and development of the department of Radiotherapy at Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow which he nurtured for 20 years till 2007. In addition, he had worked in premier Institutions like IRCH, AIIMS, New Delhi and RGCI & RC, Delhi. He has been a consultant to the Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT) of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna and had been involved in coordinating and guiding various low-middle-income group countries of Asia and Africa to establish radiotherapy centers. Before joining MGIMS, he was the Head of the Radiation Research Programme at the Centre of Radiation Oncology, Cantonal Hospital of Aarau, Switzerland for eight years. During this period, he contributed significantly towards publishing evidence for hyperthermia as a treatment modality for cancer using conventional and network meta-analysis along with novel clinical trials. These have provided level I evidence with hyperthermia in various tumour sites and helped in integrating hyperthermia along with radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy in clinical oncology practice globally.

Since his joining at MGIMS, he has been passionately working towards improving the clinical care, teaching, training and research in radiation oncology. His persuasions have led to a radical facelift of the department leading to a lively, comforting, welcoming, pleasing with a positive feel to all patients attending the centre. The department housing all the treatment units has therefore been aptly renamed as “The Healing Centre.”

He has successfully introduced state-of-the-art radiotherapy techniques in April 2022 including - image guided radiation therapy, adaptive radiotherapy and image guided brachytherapy in all possible sites. He has also introduced hyperthermia in the department, thereby making MGIMS the first center in India to have integrated hyperthermia as a routine therapeutic modality along with radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy in various locally advanced cancers.

He intends to develop the department as a “Centre of Excellence” so that it is recognized for providing quality teaching, training, research and clinical services in radiation oncology. On the whole, the department believes and consciously engages to deliver “Quality Assured Radiation Therapy” and more importantly at an affordable cost to all sections of the society. Further, the additional features of brachytherapy for all sites and hyperthermia provides special features that could be unique for patients attending this department.