Dr. Vinayak Maka

Department

Medical Oncology

Designation

Senior Consultant & Professor

Education

MBBS, MD, DM(Medical Oncology), MNAMS (Medical Oncology) Clinical Fellowship in Haematology & HSC transplantation, SGH, Singapore. Master of Business Law, NLSIU, Bengaluru. Professional Certificate in Hospital Management, IIMBX, Bengaluru.

Experience

20+ Years Experience

Speciality

Medical Oncology

Language Known

Kannada, English, Hindi, and Gujarati

About Dr. Vinayak Maka

Dr. Vinayak V Maka is a senior Oncologist who teaches and practices at the Ramaiah Medical College. He is familiar with diagnosing and treating all types of malignancies and carrying out autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplantations. Dr. Maka and his team were instrumental in starting and securing approval for a sub specialty degree (DM) in medical oncology for students per year from 2016 and in starting the stem cell transplantation program in 2015. He has also been involved in various investigator-instigated and industry driven clinical research and also has multiple research grants for translational oncology including rectal cancer stem cells in collaboration with Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore under RGUHS research Grant.

Experience

Senior Medical oncology Consultation , and Stem cell Transplant physician, Ramaiah Memorial Hospital- September 2012- Til Now

Professor, Medical Oncology - April 2019 – Till Now

Head of Department, Medical Oncology. April 2019 – June 2024

Associate Professor, Medical Oncology. November 2016 – March 2019

Assistant Professor, Medical Oncology. September 2012 –September 2016

Area of Expertise

Dr. Maka currently specializes in providing personalized cancer care in Gastrointestinal cancers, Urological cancers, Head and Neck cancers, Lung cancers, sarcoma, brain tumors and cancers.

Awards & Achievements

He has 24 publications in peer-reviewed, indexed journals, out of which ten are in international journals.

He was awarded the first prize (Young ICON Research Grant), for the Best Thesis presentation at the 30th ICON at Ahmedabad in April 2014.

He has also been selected and trained as Fellow in Haematology and BMT at Singapore General Hospital, from July to December 2015.

He was selected to participate in the ESMO Sponsored Translational Research Unit visit at the Second University of Naples, Italy.

Awarded MNAMS in Medical Oncology at the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry in India on 26th to 28th October, 2018.

Multiple travel grants from ESMO to attend ESMO preceptorship on Colorectal Cancer in Singapore in March 2015,Gastric Cancer in Singapore in November 2015, NSCLC in Singapore in December 2015, and Prostate cancer in Singapore in November 2016

Travel grant from ESO to attend ESO-ESMO-RCE Clinical Update on Rare Adult Solid Cancers at Milan 2016.

He was selected for CReDO, an intensive oncology research protocol development workshop under TMH in 2018.

He has also served as General Secretary of Association of Medical Oncologist of India -Karnataka chapter for 2017-2019

In 2020, He started the Academic Medical Oncology program (AMOP), an annual student educational initiative to address practical needs of final year DM/DNB students in their examinations.

He was awarded Research Excellence Award by Ramaiah Medical College in July 2025 for the highest research output.

Membership & Scientific Committee Roles

President, Association of Medical Oncologists in India(AMOI)

General Secretary, Indian Society of Medical & Pediatric Oncology (ISMPO)

Current member, ID 82241,ESMO

Member, American Society of Clinical Oncology ASCO,2013

Lifetime member, Indian Cooperative Oncology Network (ICON), 2014

Lifetime member, Indian Society of Medical & Pediatric Oncology (ISMPO), 2014

Lifetime member, Indian Society of oncology, 2018.

Experts' Blogs

The Times of India (2026)

Expert insights on rising pancreatic cancer and challenges oflate diagnosis

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India TV (2025)

Debunked common cancer myths and misinformation in public discourse

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Moneycontrol (2025)

Explained cancer staging and its impact on treatment outcomes

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Happiest Health (2025)

Commentary on nutrition and protein intake in cancer care

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M3 India

Authored multiple expert blogs on hematology-oncology updates and global conference insights

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