Alex J. Rai PhD

Dr. Rai is an assistant attending clinical chemist in the clinical chemistry service of the department of pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. During his fellowship training at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dr. Rai focused on proteomics- and bioinformatics-based biomarker discovery in ovarian cancer, in addition to his clinical service training. His current research interests lie in the discovery of novel biomarkers for cancer and their translation into clinically useful diagnostic tests. He is interested in designing, evaluating, and validating tests for stratifying cancer subtypes and identifying patients unable to metabolize chemotherapeutic drugs. By stratifying a patient’s disease based on biomarker profiles and screening patient genotypes prior to their starting therapy, treatment of a patient’s cancer and selection of the most appropriate therapeutic regimen can be custom tailored.