Gyorgy Petrovics is a Research Professor and Senior Scientist at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine in support of the Center for Prostate Disease Research (CPDR) and Murtha Cancer Center Research Program (MCCRP), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He has an academic appointment at the Uniformed Services University (USU), F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, in the USU-Walter Reed Department of Surgery. He earned his Ph.D. and “Doctoris Universitatis” degrees in 1992 and 1997 in Hungary, then completed a Junior Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute, Germany, a Postdoctoral Fellowship at CNRS, France, and a Fogarty Fellowship at the Douglas Lowy Laboratory, NCI/NIH, USA. He has played a key scientific leadership role in developing and accumulating valuable resources, including biobank specimens and infrastructure (multidisciplinary collaborations), over 20 years at CPDR. He was the first to notice and highlight the widespread overexpression of the ERG oncogene in prostate cancer, a major prostate cancer driver gene. He also recognized early on the disparate expression of ERG and other genes between African American and Caucasian American prostate tumors. He discovered that a novel prostate-specific gene called PCGEM1 is a long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) gene. Dr. Petrovics developed novel prostate cancer biomarker panels and assay platforms to translate into clinical use for the benefit of patients.