Anant Vatsayan, MD

Blood and Marrow Transplant Specialist

Anant Vatsayan, MBBS, is a blood and marrow transplant/cellular therapy attending at Children’s National Hospital. He is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, the cellular therapy laboratory medical director, and the pediatric BMT fellowship director for the joint NCI/Children’s National Hospital BMT Fellowship Program. He is a board-certified pediatric hematologist/oncologist.

Prior to joining Children’s National, Dr. Vatsayan completed a two-year fellowship in cellular therapy/blood and marrow transplantation (BMT) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Center, New York. He did his pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

His research interests include BMT/cellular therapies for pediatric high-risk hematologic malignancies. He is the clinical lead for the Chimeric Antigen Receptor T (CAR-T) therapy program at Children’s National. His other interests include novel transplantation techniques like TCR alpha/beta T cell depleted BMT, graft versus host disease and BMT for high-risk inherited bone marrow failure syndromes, like Fanconi anemia.

• Blood and Marrow Transplant
• Cancer and Blood Disorders Center