Dr. Ajay Goel is a Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Molecular Diagnostics at the Beckman Research Institute; as well as Associate Director of Basic Science at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, and also serves as Director, Biotech Innovations at the City of Hope, Duarte, CA. He received his Ph.D. in biophysics from Punjab University. He completed his postgraduate work at the University of California, San Diego and went on to have a noteworthy 16-year career at Baylor Scott & White Research Institute in Texas. Dr. Goel is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), and the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA) and is on the international editorial boards of several journals including Gastroenterology, Clinical Cancer Research, Carcinogenesis, PLoS ONE, etc. He has won more than a dozen national and international awards and honors and has been invited for visiting professorships by various national and international academic institutions and academic bodies. Dr. Goel has spent more than 25 years researching cancer and has been the lead author or contributor to over 350 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed international journals and several book chapters. He is also a primary inventor on more than 40 international patents aimed at developing various disease biomarkers or therapeutic targets for gastrointestinal cancers.