Vikash Bhagwandin, Ph.D.
Founder, CEO
Vikash is the Founder & CEO of OncoStemyx, which he started in 2016. Prior to launching OncoStemyx, 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 Cell Genesis, Tularik, Genentech, Dendreon, and Geron where he made several discoveries of which some have translated into cancer therapies.