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All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
AIIMS New Delhi is India's flagship public medical institute; its Rotary Cancer Hospital and the National Cancer Institute campus at Jhajjar anchor government cancer research, and its investigators lead Indian studies in paediatric oncology, gallbladder cancer, PSMA radioligand therapy and low-cost CAR-T.
Also called: AIIMSDr B.R. Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer HospitalNational Cancer Institute Jhajjar
Overview
AIIMS New Delhi was created by an Act of Parliament in 1956 as India's flagship medical institute and hospital. Cancer care is concentrated in the Dr B.R. Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, opened in 1983, and in the National Cancer Institute at Jhajjar, Haryana, a large AIIMS-run cancer campus commissioned from 2019 with proton therapy planned and a national biobank and screening research mandate. AIIMS investigators lead Indian studies in paediatric oncology, gallbladder cancer (unusually common in northern India), oral and cervical cancer screening, radiation oncology and nuclear medicine (PSMA and FAPI PET, radioligand therapy), and haematology including low-cost CAR-T development with IIT Bombay partners. It sets national training standards and publishes the largest volume of oncology research of any Indian public institution.
Location
New Delhi, IN
Type
hospital
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#117 · 36 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 36 from 18 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-24.
Matched to All India Institute of Medical Sciences, including child institutions. 890 works · 5,242 citations · 67% open access · 7% clinical trials · 5% reviews.
Oncology works per year
1852022
1592023
1722024
2182025
1562026
Most works
- Ajay Gogia55 works
- Atul Batra39 works
- Chandra Prakash Prasad27 works
- Raja Pramanik23 works
- Prabhat Singh Malik19 works
- Sandeep Rajinder Mathur19 works
- Jagdish Prasad Meena18 works
- S. V. S. Deo18 works
- Deepam Pushpam17 works
- Abhishek Shankar16 works
Most cited
- Rotary Cancer Hospital
- National Cancer Institute Jhajjar
- Nuclear medicine and theranostics
- Paediatric oncology
- Gallbladder cancer
Nikhil Tandon
Director
EndocrinologyMetabolic diseaseAcademic medicine leadership
Endocrinologist appointed Director of AIIMS New Delhi in 2026, India's premier public medical institute and home to the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital.
Vinod Raina
Executive Director, Medical Oncology and Haematology, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram; former Head of Medical Oncology, AIIMS New Delhi
Medical oncologyBreast cancerLymphoma and haematological malignancies
A medical oncologist who led the cancer hospital at AIIMS Delhi for many years, trained a large share of India's medical oncologists and helped write the country's early cancer treatment standards.
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