Ajay Goel's Biography

Ajay Goel, Director, Epigenetics and Cancer Prevention, Baylor University Medical Center

Ajay Goel, Ph.D., is Director of Epigenetics and Cancer Prevention at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, TX. He has spent 20 years researching cancer and has been the lead author or contributor to over 150 scientific articles published in peer reviewed international journals and several book chapters. He is currently researching the prevention of cancer using integrative approaches, including botanical products. Two of the primary botanicals he is investigating are curcumin (from turmeric) and boswellia. He is one of the top scientists in the world investigating botanical interventions.

Dr. Goel is particularly interested in the medical applications of curcumin. He has several scientific studies underway in the laboratory and reports he is extremely encouraged by the new promising discoveries being made in the realm of botanical medicine every day.

Dr. Goel is also a member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Gastroenterology Association and is on the international editorial boards of multiple scientific publications, including American Journal of Cancer Research, Clinical Cancer Research, Gastroenterology, World Journal of Gastroenterology and World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology. He is Senior Editor for Hereditary Genetics and Gastroenterology and Hepatology, as well as Academic Editor for PLoS ONE. Additionally, he performs peer-reviewing activities for almost 75 scientific journals, as well as serves on various grant funding committees of the National Institutes of Health as well as international research funding agencies.

He has been an invited speaker at Harvard Medical School and other universities and conferences around the world and served as a visiting professor at the Department of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Panjab University, India; Medical University of Vienna, Austria; and at Yonsei University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. His many awards include the Union of European Gastroenterology Federations “Distinguished Researcher” Award and numerous Poster of Distinction Awards from the American Gastroenterological Association.