Dr. Masood A. Shammas currently working as a Lead Scientist at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA. He obtained my doctorate in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA and continued in the same department for postdoctoral training. Subsequently, through collaboration, He also joined Myeloma Transplantation Research Center at Arkansas Cancer Research Center. In 1999, He was promoted to the position of Instructor at UAMS. From 2001-2006, He worked as Instructor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard (Dana Farber) Cancer Institute, Boston, USA. In 2006, He accepted a position as Director, Surgical Oncology and Developmental Therapeutics Laboratory and Assistant Professor of Surgery at Wayne State University and Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, USA. While at Detroit, in 2008, He obtained my first R01 award from NCI to explore telomerase and homologous recombination as targets in Barrett’s adenocarcinoma. In 2009, He moved back to Harvard (Dana Farber) Cancer Institute, Boston, USA.