Abhijit Patel's Biography

Abhijit Patel, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine

Abhijit Patel’s research group at Yale University is working to develop and develop and clinically validate novel noninvasive DNA- and RNA-based cancer diagnostics. He is an Associate Professor of Therapeutic Radiology at the Yale University School of Medicine. He completed residency training in radiation oncology at Harvard University, medical internship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and obtained his MD and PhD degrees at Yale University. His scientific background is in the field of nucleic acid biochemistry, having performed his Ph.D. and postdoctoral training with Drs. Joan Steitz and Jack Szostak. As a physician-scientist, he also maintains an active clinical radiation oncology practice.