Balkrishna Jahagirdar, M.D.

Dr. Jahagirdar received his initial medical training at the University of Bombay, Bombay, India. He completed residency training in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and recently completed a fellowship in the Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation Division at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. During his fellowship, Dr. Jahagirdar performed research on the human hematopoietic stem cell under the mentorship of Catherine Verfaillie MD in the Stem Cell Institute.

After completion of his fellowship, Dr. Jahagirdar joined the HOT Division faculty in the Department of Medicine at the Minneapolis Veterans Administration Medical Center. He staffed the inpatient and outpatient services and continued his successful research in human stem cell biology.

In 2008 Dr. Jahagirdar joined the Hematology/Oncology faculty at Regions Hospital.

Selected Publications
Jahagirdar BN, Miller JS, Shet A, Verfaillie CM. Novel therapies for chronic myelogenous leukemia. Exp Hematol 2001; 29:543-556.

Shet AS, Jahagirdar BN, Verfaillie CM. Chronic myelogenous leukemia: Mechanisms underlying disease progression. Leukemia 2002; 16:1402-1411.

Jiang Y, Jahagirdar BN, Reinhardt RL, Schwartz RE, Keene CD, Ortiz-Gonzalez XR, Reyes M, Lenvik T, Lund T, Blackstad M, Du J, Aldrich S, Lisberg A, Low WC, Largaespada DA, Verfaillie CM. Pluripotency of mesenchymal stem cells derived from adult marrow. Nature 2002; 418:41-49.

Jahagirdar BN, Morrison VA. Emerging fungal pathogens in patients with hematologic malignancies and marrow/stem-cell transplant recipients. Semin Respir Infect 2002; 17:113-120.

Devine SM, Jahagirdar B, van Besien K. Reduced duration of cytopenais following gmelphalan conditioning and autografting for multiple myeloma. Blood 2002; 99:4251-4252.

Reyes M, Dudek A, Jahagirdar B, Koodie L, Marker PH, Verfaillie CM. Origin of endothelial progenitors in human postnatal bone marrow. J Clin Invest 2002; 109:337-346.

Devine SM, Jahagirdar B, van Besien K.  Reduced duration of cytopenias following melphalan conditioning and autografting for multiple myeloma.  Blood 2002; 99:4251-2.

Jahagirdar BN, Morrison VA.  Emerging fungal pathogens in patients with hematologic malignancies and marrow/stem-cell transplant recipients. Semin Respir Infect 2002; 17:113-20. Review. 

Jiang Y, Jahagirdar BN, Reinhardt RL, Schwartz RE, Keene CD, Ortiz-Gonzalez XR, Reyes M, Lenvik T, Lund T, Blackstad M, Du J, Aldrich S, Lisberg A, Low WC, Largaespada DA, Verfaillie CM. Pluripotency of mesenchymal stem cells derived from adult marrow. Nature 2002; 418: 41-9. Erratum in: Nature 2007; 447:879-80.

Shet AS, Jahagirdar BN, Verfaillie CM.  Chronic myelogenous leukemia: mechanisms underlying disease progression. Leukemia 2002; 16:1402-11. Review.

Jahagirdar BN, Verfaillie CM. Multipotent adult progenitor cell and stem cell plasticity. Stem Cell Rev 2005; 1:53-9. Review.

Hussein K, Jahagirdar B, Gupta P, Burns L, Larsen K, Weisdorf D.  Day 14 bone marrow biopsy in predicting complete remission and survival in acute myeloid leukemia. Am J Hematol 2008; In press.