Shekhar Krishnan is a clinical consultant in paediatric haematology-oncology at the Tata Medical Center. As investigator, he is part of the clinical and laboratory research programmes at TTCRC. Following undergraduate medical training at the Christian Medical College Vellore (1992), Dr Krishnan trained in paediatrics (MRCP, 1996), haematology (FRCPath, 2009) and laboratory research in acute leukaemias (PhD, 2011).