Upendra Hegde, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology

Contact Information:
The Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06030-2875
Phone: 860-679-2100, 800-579-7822
Fax: 860-679-4815

Specialties:
Medical Oncology:
Melanoma
Head and Neck Cancers
Genitourinary Cancer
Hematologic Malignancies:
Lymphoma
Leukemia

Board Certifications:
Internal Medicine
Medical Oncology
Hematology

Research Interests:
Dr. Hegde is interested in tumor biology and tumor immunology.

Biography:
Dr. Hegde received his medical degree from the Goa Medical College in Goa, India. He completed Post Graduate training in Internal Medicine at Goa Medical College (Bombay University) and went on to do a clinical fellowship training in Medical Oncology at Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay. He worked closely with basic researchers and studied the clinical relevance of multidrug resistance in acute myelogenous leukemia. In 1992, he received a research scholarship from Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago IL, to study the leukemias at cellular and molecular biologic level. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Cook County Hospital, Chicago IL, and went on to do a fellowship training program in Hematology and Oncology in the Medicine branch of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.

Interest Statement:
Dr. Hegde is committed to development of new treatment strategies for a variety of cancers targeting molecular pathways and implementing immunology principles. He is particularly interested in the use of monoclonal antibodies and tumor peptides as vaccine.