# Gaurav Narula

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## TL;DR

A paediatric oncologist at Tata Memorial who led the leukaemia arm of India's first CAR-T trials and runs national childhood leukaemia protocols.

## Summary

Gaurav Narula is a paediatric oncologist at Tata Memorial Hospital whose work spans childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia protocols adapted to Indian conditions, the Indian Childhood Collaborative Leukaemia group trials and the clinical development of talicabtagene autoleucel (NexCAR19), for which he was an investigator and an author of the published real-world series. He also works on infection control and supportive care in low-resource paediatric oncology.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Role: Professor of Paediatric Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital
- Specialisms: Paediatric oncology; Childhood leukaemia; CAR-T cell therapy; Cooperative group trials

## Sources

- Tata Memorial Centre: https://tmc.gov.in
- PubMed author search: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Narula%20G%5BAuthor%5D%20Tata%20Memorial%20paediatric%20leukaemia

## Connected records

- cancers: [Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia](https://onco.cc/cancers/all-leukemia/)
- technologies: [CAR-T cell therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/car-t/)
- drugs: [Talicabtagene autoleucel](https://onco.cc/drugs/talicabtagene-autoleucel/)
- institutions: [Tata Memorial Centre](https://onco.cc/institutions/tata-memorial/)
- trials: [Talicabtagene autoleucel (NexCAR19) phase 1/2](https://onco.cc/trials/talicel-phase-1-2/)
- journals: [Indian journal of cancer](https://onco.cc/journals/indian-journal-of-cancer/)
- companies: [ImmunoACT](https://onco.cc/companies/immunoact/)
- key papers: [Talicabtagene autoleucel for relapsed or refractory B-cell malignancies: an open-label, multicentre, phase 1/2 study](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-jain-talicabtagene-lancet-haem-2025/)

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