Azra Raza

Azra Raza

Azra Raza is the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Clinical Director of The Edward P. Evans Foundation MDS Center at Columbia University in New York. A practicing oncologist seeing 30-40 cancer patients weekly, she directs a basic cancer research lab with hundreds of original publications in high profile journals. Her life is dedicated to prevention of all chronic diseases including cancer by early detection. She worked with President Clinton designing Breakthrough Developments in Science and Technology and with President Joe Biden for the Cancer Moonshot initiative. Her latest book, THE FIRST CELL: And the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last is a national best seller and has been translated into nine languages.