Ajaz A. Bhat is a Senior Staff Scientist at Sidra Medicine, Qatar. He earned his PhD in Vaccine Immunology from AIIMS, New Delhi, and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, where his research was focused on tight junction proteins in colorectal cancer and bile acid–induced regulation of APE1/Ref1 in esophageal cancer. His current research is on cancer genetics, drug discovery, obesity, and diabetes.