{"entity":{"id":"t-naveen","kind":"person","name":"T. Naveen","aka":[],"tldr":"Director of Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, the Karnataka state government's regional cancer centre in Bengaluru.","summary":"T. Naveen (Dr T Naveen) is Director of the Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology (KMIO), the state-run regional cancer centre in Bengaluru, Karnataka. An October 2025 Medical Dialogues report on plans to add 450 beds to the institute names him as KMIO director, noting that Karnataka's medical education minister Sharan Prakash Patil directed him to release full salaries to nurses who had been on maternity leave. The institute's own website could not be reached, so no appointment date or biographical detail is given.","asOf":"2026-09-10","links":[{"label":"Source: Medical Dialogues report on the 450-bed expansion naming the Director (October 2025)","url":"https://medicaldialogues.in/news/health/hospital-diagnostics/kidwai-memorial-institute-of-oncology-plans-450-bed-expansion-156647"}],"tags":["leadership","hospital-management","government"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["kidwai-memorial-institute-of-oncology"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":["oral-oncology","indian-journal-of-cancer","journal-of-cancer-research-and-therapeutics"],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Director, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bengaluru","institutionId":"kidwai-memorial-institute-of-oncology","specialisms":["Oncology","Cancer hospital management"],"profiles":[{"label":"Medical Dialogues report naming the KMIO director (October 2025)","url":"https://medicaldialogues.in/news/health/hospital-diagnostics/kidwai-memorial-institute-of-oncology-plans-450-bed-expansion-156647"}],"papers":[{"title":"Nimotuzumab provides survival benefit to patients with inoperable advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: A randomized, open-label, phase IIb, 5-year study in Indian patients","journal":"Oral Oncology","year":2014,"doi":"10.1016/j.oraloncology.2013.11.008"},{"title":"Cell-free circulating tumor DNA in patients with high-grade glioma as diagnostic biomarker – A guide to future directive","journal":"Indian Journal of Cancer","year":2019,"doi":"10.4103/ijc.ijc_551_17"},{"title":"Prostate permanent implant brachytherapy with BARC I-125 Ocu-Prosta seeds","journal":"Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics","year":2021,"doi":"10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_424_20"}]},"route":"/people/t-naveen/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"kidwai-memorial-institute-of-oncology","kind":"institution","name":"Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology","route":"/institutions/kidwai-memorial-institute-of-oncology/"}],"journal":[{"id":"indian-journal-of-cancer","kind":"journal","name":"Indian journal of cancer","route":"/journals/indian-journal-of-cancer/"},{"id":"journal-of-cancer-research-and-therapeutics","kind":"journal","name":"Journal of cancer research and therapeutics","route":"/journals/journal-of-cancer-research-and-therapeutics/"},{"id":"oral-oncology","kind":"journal","name":"Oral oncology","route":"/journals/oral-oncology/"}]}}