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Nishant Agrawal, MD

  • Professor of Surgery
    Committee on Cancer Biology
  • Clinical Interests: Minimally Invasive ENT Surgery
  • Research and Scholarly Interests: Head and Neck Cancer, Head and Neck Neoplasms, HPV Head and Neck Cancer, Mouth Cancers, Salivary Gland Neoplasm, Thyroid Cancer, Thyroid Neoplasms
  • Websites: Research Network Profile
  • Contact: nagrawal4@uchicago.edu
  • Graduate Program: Cancer Biology

Dr. Agrawal’s lab is devoted to the study of the genetics and molecular diagnostics of head and neck cancer. The group has described the genomic landscape of head & neck squamous cell carcinoma, esophageal cancer and medullary thyroid cancer, and has developed assays using tumor DNA as a biomarker in saliva and plasma. His lab’s research is focused on the application of cancer genetics to design diagnostic approaches to reduce morbidity and mortality from head and neck cancer.