Dr. Arun George Paul, M.D., Ph.D. grew up in Bhoothathankettu, a small village in Kerala, India. After high school, he came to United States and completed BA with a major in Biology and minors in Chemistry and Religious studies with academic scholarships. His senior thesis as an undergraduate was on the development of a unique PCR assay that can detect telomeric fusions. Dr. Paul completed the MD/PhD program at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. His PhD work in viral oncology delineated the tumorigenic role of COX-2/PGE2/EP receptor pathway in Kaposi’s Sarcoma and how KSHV virus utilizes it for survival. He completed his Radiation Oncology residency at Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University/Karmanos Cancer Institute, an NCI designated comprehensive cancer center. Dr. Paul was an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (2017 – 2023) with additional appointments as the lead physician and later the director of the UAB outreach radiation oncology department at Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center in Anniston, Alabama (2020 – 2023) and then moved to the University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle as an assistant professor and lead physician for Seattle-VA radiation oncology department.