Gayatri Gogoi MD, IFCAP

Dr. Gayatri Gogoi did her MBBS and MD from Assam Medical College. She is presently serving as Assistant Professor of Pathology at Assam Medical College Dibrugarh. Her dedicated area of practice is laboratory oncology and she was instrumental in setting up facilities for molecular diagnosis of cancer in the institution. She has been involved in clinical and laboratory research of breast cancer, haematolymphoid malignancy, Gall Bladder, and other GIT tumors, and endocrinal tumors for the last 10 years leading to publications of approximately 20 original research papers besides a couple of commentaries and reviews. She is one of the team members of the global stem cell group headed by the team leader at Standford University and Forsyth Institute of US, which identified cancer stem cells in the T-ALL and Blast crisis phase of CML. She is a collaborator of the Regional Medical research center, Dibrugarh to study spectra of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation in breast cancer of various ethnic groups of Northeast India. Another collaborative research ongoing with IIT Guwahati Biotechnology Department on the Role of the BMP Signaling Pathway and Breast cancer metastasis. The research works of MD students in Pathology, Biochemistry, Surgery, Medicine, Radiology Radiotherapy are supervised and co-guided by her. She is an editorial board member and reviewer of a few national and international cancer journals. She is an expert as an Ethics Committee member for the Ethics Committee for medical research, Laboratory Quality Assurance Program of Medical Laboratory, laboratory safety and Infection Control Program. She has received a couple of regional national awards in scientific paper presentations. Dr. Gogoi was honored as an International Fellow of American Pathologists the last year (2017).

She is a popular science writer in the field of literature and regular features are published in both English and vernacular language. Her book on cancer is the first of its kind written by a specialist for the public for which she received an award of excellence at the 2017 Dibrugarh book fair. Her extraordinary contribution to supporting cancer patients was recognized by the community and conferred Dr. Heramba Bharali Memorial Award in 2018.