Rajvir Dahiya received his PhD in the field of Experimental Medicine and Biochemistry from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India. He completed four years of post-doctoral fellowship training in oncology and molecular biology at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in Chicago, IL. Dahiya joined the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine in 1987 as a scientist located at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC). He became director of the UCSF/VAMC Urology Research Center in 1991.

Dr. Dahiya is a scientific reviewer and chairman for the United States Army Department of Defense’s (DOD) medical research programs in prostate, breast and ovarian cancer. He is a member and chairman of scientific review committees for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) including the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institutes of Digestive Diseases and Kidney (NIDDK) and the National Institute of Aging (NIA). As a committee member and chairman, he reviews scientific progress and future plans for comprehensive cancer center programs, the George O’Brien Research Center, the NCI funded Specialized Program for Research Excellence (SPORE); postdoctoral fellow training programs; program projects related to oncology and research projects related to urologic oncology. Dahiya is a medical research advisor and scientific reviewer for numerous international programs and universities including institutions located in Europe, Israel, Japan Korea and Brazil.

Dr. Dahiya is the President of the Society of American Asian Scientists in Cancer Research and the International Cancer Research Association. The members of these associations are medical scientists from North America, South America, Europe and Asia. The associations convene to discuss the latest medical science discoveries, exchange novel ideas and foster collaboration in the field of cancer prevention, early diagnosis, prognosis and cancer treatment through novel strategies.

Dr. Dahiya has published over 350 original research manuscripts in national and international journals. He has written chapters in books and holds multiple oncology patents. Dahiya has a long-standing interest in molecular genetic targets as novel biomarkers for the early diagnosis and prognosis of cancer. Dr. Dahiya is a program director for many research projects. These include: the Center for Excellence in Prostate Cancer funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington DC; the Urological Research Training program funded by NIH/NIDDK; VA Merit Review funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington DC; miRNAs in the progression and metastasis of prostate cancer funded by NIH /NCI; chemo-dietary prevention of prostate cancer funded by NIH / NCI; Wnt antagonist genes in the progression and metastasis of kidney cancer funded by NIH / NCI.