Jayesh Mehta, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Program
The Feinberg School of Medicine
The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois

Jayesh Mehta, MD is professor of medicine and director of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Program at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. Dr Mehta received his medical degree from Bombay University in Bombay, India. After completing a residency in internal medicine at the University of Bombay, he completed fellowships in bone marrow transplantation at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel and in medical oncology at The Royal Marsden Hospital in London, United Kingdom.

Dr Mehta’s research interests include myeloma and related diseases, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and infections in immunocompromised patients. He was involved in the early clinical trials of thalidomide, lenalidomide, and bortezomib in multiple myeloma patients. In addition, Dr Mehta also studies the use of cytokines to mobilize stem cells for tissue repair, and he is a co-holder of a patent on the use of growth factor therapy in acute myocardial infarction.

Dr Mehta serves the editorial boards of Blood, Clinical Leukemia, and Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and is deputy editor of the journal Bone Marrow Transplantation. In addition to the numerous invited lectures Dr Mehta has given both nationally and internationally, he has coauthored over 800 peer-reviewed manuscripts, review articles, book chapters, and conference abstracts.