After graduating from the University of Pune, India, A/Prof Khot trained in Internal Medicine in India and the UK, where he qualified as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians. He completed training in laboratory and clinical haematology in London, UK, obtaining a Fellowship from the Royal College of Pathologists. This was followed by a clinical research fellowship involving early phase clinical trials in cell therapies and myeloma at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia. A/Prof Khot has published in leading journals and presented in national and international conferences in the fields of cell therapies, haematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation, T-cell lymphoma, myeloma and early phase clinical trials. Amit currently works as a Consultant Haematologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he is the Lead for the Myeloma and Autologous Bone Marrow Transplant service and co-lead of the Clinical Research theme within the Barrie Dalgleish Centre for Myeloma and Related Blood Cancers. His interest in improving outcomes in high risk haematologic malignancies has led to ongoing collaborations in Prehabilitation and palliative care and research as an investigator in clinical trials involving novel agents and immunotherapies in myeloma, lymphoma and other advanced blood cancers.

Stream Lead, Myeloma and Autologous Transplant; Co-lead Clinical Research, Barrie Dalgleish Centre for Myeloma and Related Blood Cancers