Shafiq Ahmed Khan

Dr. Shafiq Khan is Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Cancer Cell Biology and Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. He served as the Director of the Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Development (CCRTD) from January 2004 to December 2021. He serves as the Principal Investigator of the NIH/NIMHD/RCMI program at Clark Atlanta University. Dr. Khan earned his Master’s degree in Biological Sciences in 1976 from Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan, and his Doctorate in Reproductive Endocrinology in 1985 from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, where he also served as the Director of Basic Research at the Southwest Cancer Center. Earlier, he was affiliated with the University of Muenster in Germany, the University of Toronto and the University of Kansas Medical Center.