Ritu Gupta

Dr. Ritu Gupta leads the Unit of Laboratory Oncology at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). A clinician-scientist and hematopathologist, she is engaged in translational research and has contributed to the development of ethnicity-specific, AI-enabled risk stratification models for patients with multiple myeloma, thereby refining cancer staging and prognostication across resource-diverse healthcare settings.

Dr. Gupta established India’s first fully robotic clinical laboratory at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), in addition to founding a Unit of Excellence for Multiple Myeloma Research and a Centre for Advanced Research in Acute Myeloid Leukemia at AIIMS. She has also played an important role in drafting national guidelines in laboratory diagnostics.

As a Fulbright-Nehru scholar, Dr. Gupta is expanding her research on next-generation strategies for monitoring therapeutic responses in the evolving era of cellular cancer therapeutics. Her current work is directed toward the creation of patient-centric diagnostic workflows that intelligently integrate therapeutic modality, clinically actionable turnaround times, and infrastructure considerations to facilitate timely and individualized intervention.

In addition, Dr. Gupta is engaging with students, scholars, and investigators, sharing her perspective on the integration of clinical, patient-specific, and tumor-biological variables with artificial intelligence to develop robust, evidence-based, and future-ready paradigms in cancer diagnostics.

Ajay Gogia

Dr Ajay Gogia is an Additional Professor in the Department of Medical Oncology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences. He received his M.B.B.S, M.D. (Internal Medicine) degree from Banaras Hindu University, D.M. (Medical Oncology) from AIIMS, New Delhi.

He has over 17 years of working and teaching experience in Medical Oncology and specializes in Breast Cancer and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. His research is well published with more than 400 peer-reviewed articles in National and International oncology journals He has received the Dronacharya Award for his excellence from the Health Minister of India.

Dr. Ajay Gogia’s Fulbright-Nehru project aims to understand the molecular pathogenesis of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and see the impact of Carboplatin and /or PARP inhibitor with standard dose-dense neoadjuvant chemotherapy on BRCA-associated triple-negative breast cancer. The precise stratification of TNBC is crucial for the development of potent standardized and targeted therapies, as it has a very poor prognosis. BRCA mutational status is the only clinically validated biomarker for personalized therapy in TNBC.