Dr. Apar Kishor Ganti is a physician–scientist who completed his medical training and a residency in clinical pharmacology in Pune, India. He subsequently completed an internal medicine residency, a medical oncology fellowship, and a master’s program in clinical and translational research. Dr. Apar Kishor Ganti is the Associate Director of Clinical Research at the UNMC Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. He is a member of the Respiratory Committee of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology. He is the Chair of the Small Cell Lung Cancer Committee of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and the VA Clinical Science Research & Development Centralized Data Monitoring Committee. His research interests focus on developing novel treatment approaches for patients not candidates for standard therapies. His laboratory focuses on identifying novel prognostic and predictive biomarkers for these malignancies. He has mentored medical students, residents and fellows, and junior faculty in research projects that have been either presented at national or international meetings and/or published in peer-reviewed journals.