Dr. Aju Mathew is an American Board-certified medical oncologist and hematologist and an attending physician at the National Cancer Institute-designated Markey Cancer Center of the University of Kentucky. He was the Co-Director of the Hematology/Oncology fellowship training program. He is also an adjunct faculty at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. After graduating in medicine from the Government Medical College Trivandrum in Kerala, he has attained further training in Cambridge University (epidemiology) in England, Karolinska Institute (molecular biology) in Sweden and University of Pittsburgh (residency in internal medicine and fellowship in hematology/medical oncology).He is also the Senior Medical Advisor at Karkinos Healthcare, Director at Kerala Cancer Care, Adjunct Faculty at Manipal University, and Honorary Consultant at Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences. He has published in major high impact journals in the field of medicine. He has also received awards from the American Society of Clinical Oncology and American Association of Cancer Research for his research work.