Nikhil Tandon was born on 28 November 1963 in Delhi. He secured his master's degree (MD) from the
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, obtained his doctoral degree (PhD) from the
University of Cambridge and returned to India in 1993 to join
AIIMS as a member of its faculty. He has stayed with AIIMS ever since and is a professor and the head of the department of endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes at the institution. and has been a member of the steering committee of Center for Cardio-metabolic Risk Reduction in South Asia (CARRS) Trial funded by the
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. and a president and the incumbent general secretary of the Indian Society for Bone and Mineral Research. He has served as an executive committee member of the Endocrine Society of India and a fellow of the
National Academy of Medical Sciences and the
Royal College of Physicians of London. His research findings have been published in several national and international journals,
PubMed listing 454 of them in their online repository. He has also featured in the news for the
pituitary tumor surgery of the then tallest woman in the world, Siddiqa Parveen. The
Medical Council of India awarded him
Dr. B. C. Roy Award in the medical teaching category in 2005. The
Government of India followed it up with the civilian award of
Padma Shri in 2015. He lives at the
Asian Games Village in New Delhi. ==References==