--- title: TIME100 Health: Alka Dwivedi description: Find out why Alka Dwivedi is on the TIME100 Health list. canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-health/6968932/alka-dwivedi/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-05-02T12:11:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:24:49.097Z article:section: Health og:title: Alka Dwivedi og:description: Find out why Alka Dwivedi is on the TIME100 Health list. og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-health/6968932/alka-dwivedi/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53e319dd25eeff32/698a5618929fadf582bfc719/T100health-2024-Alka-Dwivedi2.jpg?branch=production&width=800&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Alka Dwivedi og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alka Dwivedi twitter:description: Find out why Alka Dwivedi is on the TIME100 Health list. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53e319dd25eeff32/698a5618929fadf582bfc719/T100health-2024-Alka-Dwivedi2.jpg?branch=production&width=800&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- May 02, 2024 # Alka Dwivedi > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. ## Video: See Everyone on the TIME100 Health list [Watch (HLS stream): See Everyone on the TIME100 Health list](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/bYIwjCx8.m3u8) (1:45)  _Published 2024-05-02_ by [Astha Rajvanshi](https://time.com/author/astha-rajvanshi/) ## Astha Rajvanshi  Alka Dwivedi Alka Dwivedi As a graduate student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Alka Dwivedi noticed that the number of cancer patients had begun increasing at an alarming rate every year. In 2023 alone, there were nearly 1.6 million new diagnoses, [according](https://www.who.int/news/item/01-02-2024-global-cancer-burden-growing--amidst-mounting-need-for-services) to the World Health Organization. But the few available treatments were not affordable for the majority of Indian patients who come from low- and middle-income families. For example, CAR T-cell therapy—immunotherapy in which T cells are modified to selectively attack cancer cells—originated in the U.S. and is now being tested in Indian clinical trials as a promising treatment for blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma. But it can [cost](https://www.indiatoday.in/health/story/curing-cancer-an-indian-scientists-quest-to-find-the-antidote-2521634-2024-04-01) as much as 3 or 4 crores—nearly $50,000—in India. After years of looking for ways to ease the cancer burden, Dwivedi and her team may have finally found the answer: NexCar19\. Like CAR T, the treatment reprograms a patient’s immune system to fight cancer and was recently approved for commercial use by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization. Unlike CAR T, it is produced in India, lowering the cost to about one-tenth that of CAR T therapy. Although it can be used only for blood cancers in patients over the age of 15 for now, NexCar19 could save millions of lives in the world’s most populous country. “This is a big achievement for India,” Dwivedi [told](https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2024/nexcar19-car-t-cell-therapy-india-nci-collaboration) the Maryland-based National Cancer Institute, where she is now continuing to train at the Center for Cancer Research. “It’s the team effort that brought us here.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-health/6968932/alka-dwivedi/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-health/6968932/alka-dwivedi/"},"headline":"Alka Dwivedi","datePublished":"2024-05-02T12:11:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:24:49.097Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-health/6968932/alka-dwivedi/","keywords":["time100health2024","franchise","Magazine","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53e319dd25eeff32/698a5618929fadf582bfc719/T100health-2024-Alka-Dwivedi2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Astha Rajvanshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/astha-rajvanshi/"}],"creator":"Astha Rajvanshi","articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53e319dd25eeff32/698a5618929fadf582bfc719/T100health-2024-Alka-Dwivedi2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time100-health-2024/","name":"time100health2024"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-health/6968932/alka-dwivedi/","name":"Alka Dwivedi"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"See Everyone on the TIME100 Health list","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/bYIwjCx8/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2024-05-02T12:00:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/bYIwjCx8.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/time100-health/6968932/alka-dwivedi/","duration":"PT1M45S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/time100-health/6968932/alka-dwivedi/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```