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Vikash is the Founder of recently launched Nivarana Bio. Prior to Nivarana Bio, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the UCSF Cancer Center under the mentorship of the legendary cancer biologist, Dr. J. Michael Bishop, Chancellor Emeritus of UCSF and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1989. Vikash obtained his Ph.D. from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where he studied telomerase and cancer stem cells under the mentorship of Jerry Shay and Woodring Wright. Prior to his graduate career, Vikash spent many years conducting cancer research at several companies such as Astelllas, Varian, Cell Genesis, Tularik, Genentech, Dendreon, and Geron where he made several discoveries of which many of them have gained FDA approved as novel cancer therapies.