David B Agus is an American physician, cancer researcher and author who serves as a professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering and the Founding Director and CEO of the Lawrence J Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine.
27 Facts About David Agus
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David Agus is the cofounder of several personalized medicine companies and a contributor to CBS News on health topics.
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David Agus has developed new cancer treatments with the aid of private foundations, as well as national agencies including the National Cancer Institute.
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David Agus completed his residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital and completed his oncology fellowship training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
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David Agus spent two years at the National Institutes of Health as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NIH Research Scholar.
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David Agus maintains an oncology practice to apply his team's research discoveries to the patients under his care.
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David Agus was Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cornell University Medical Center.
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The center grew out of earlier clinical projects at Cedars-Sinai, where David Agus served as an attending physician in oncology, which observed striking differences between the aggressiveness of prostate cancer in certain patients and their ability to respond to treatment.
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David Agus formerly served as Director of the Louis Warschaw Prostate Cancer Center, and as an attending physician in the Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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David Agus was an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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David Agus is presently a Professor of Medicine and Engineering at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and is the CEO and Founding Director of the Lawrence J Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine in Los Angeles and Oxford, England.
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David Agus's research has focused on the use of technology to model cancer and on new treatments for cancer.
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David Agus is a member of several scientific and medical societies, including the Council on Foreign Relations, American Association for Cancer Research, American College of Physicians, American Society of Clinical Oncology.
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David Agus became a contributor for CBS News in 2013 and appears regularly on CBS This Morning and other CBS News platforms.
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David Agus has founded and co-founded several companies including Oncology.
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David Agus co-chaired the Fortune Brainstorm Health conference from its inception in 2016 until 2022, and the inaugural Time100 Health Summit in 2019.
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David Agus has hosted public health conversations with individuals like Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, and Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer.
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David Agus' first book, The End of Illness, was published in 2012 is a New York Times best seller and international best seller and was the subject of a PBS series.
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Loberg issued a public apology and David Agus stated that she misled him during the writing process by claiming to use antiplagiarism software.
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David Agus has received many honors and awards, including the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, American Cancer Society Physician Research Award, a Clinical Scholar Award from the Sloan-Kettering Institute, a CaP CURE Young Investigator Award and the American Society of Clinical Oncology Fellowship Award, the HealthNetwork Foundation's Excellence Award, and the 2009 Geoffrey Beene Foundation's Rock Stars of Science, as seen in GQ.
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Agus hosted a Paramount+ television show titled The Check Up with Dr David Agus, which was broadcast starting in December 2022.
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David Agus is married to Amy Joyce Povich, actress and daughter of syndicated television talk show host Maury Povich.
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David Agus's stepmother, Connie Chung, is a former CBS News anchor.
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David Agus's grandfather, Rabbi Jacob B Agus, was a theologian and the author of several books on Jewish history and philosophy.
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David Agus delivered a TEDMED 2009 lecture on "A new strategy in the war on cancer", which is one of the most watched cancer talks on TED.
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David Agus was the physician to Johnny Ramone during his battle with prostate cancer, and other prominent individuals.
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David Agus was on the board of directors of the Biden Cancer Initiative until it was closed when Joe Biden ran for president, Thrive Global, ImageneAI, Project Ronin, Sensei, Sensei Ag, the National Library of Israel and the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation.