FORA.tv Speaker - David Agus

David Agus is a professor of medicine at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, and heads USC's Westside Cancer Center and the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine. His research focuses on the application of proteomics and genomics for the study of cancer and the development of new therapeutics for cancer.

Agus has received many honors, including the American Cancer Society Physician Research Award, a Clinical Scholar Award from the Sloan-Kettering Institute, the International Myeloma Foundation Visionary Science Award, the Health Network Foundation's Excellence Award, and the 2009 GQ magazine Rockstar of Science Award. He is the founder of Oncology.com, the largest cancer Internet resource community, and Applied Proteomics; and co-founder of Navigenics, a genomic health care technology and wellness company. Agus's new book, What is Health?, will be published in September.