Khandan Keyomarsi is a Professor at the Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology, Division of Radiation Oncology of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX. She received her Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry at the University of Southern California in 1989. Then she joined Harvard Medical School for her post-doctoral studies and completed it in 1993. In 2019, she was honored as MD Anderson Cancer Center Distinguished Teaching Professor. In 2020, she was appointed  William C. Liedtke, Jr. Chair in Cancer Research. She has published >142 international peer-reviewed papers with a total citation of 16,679. Her work has been internationally recognized (h index 51 in Scopus and 62 in Google Scholar).