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Dr. Shiv Srivastava is an accomplished cancer researcher, a leader, and a mentor who has dedicated his professional career focused on cancer science for the benefit of patients.

Currently, he contributes to basic science/translational cancer research in an advisory role. Dr. Shiv Srivastava was a Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), where he served as the founding Scientific Director of the Center for Prostate Disease Research (CPDR) for over 25 years. Shiv co-led the establishment of the multi-disciplinary basic science and translational research programs in prostate cancer and unique bio-resources at the USUHS, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), and Murtha Cancer Center (MCC). His research focuses have been the discovery and translation of prostate cancer driver genes, the development or evaluation of technologies for improving prognosis and treatment of prostate cancer, and the molecular basis of racial disparity in prostate cancer.

Shiv earned his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, and completed fellowships at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the National Cancer Institute. He has published over 200 papers on cancer biology, next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, and computational biology, and other oncology research approaches.