Mitesh Borad, M.D.

Mitesh Borad, M.D. (HEMO ’08) has been honored as the 2024 Mayo Clinic Arizona Investigator of the Year. Dr. Borad is a professor of medicine and the Getz Family Research Professor. As a specialist in medical oncology, drug development and genomics, Dr. Borad has been extensively involved in developing new cancer therapeutic platforms that use genomic medicine, gene and virus therapies, with a focus on tumors of the liver, bile ducts and pancreas. In a groundbreaking effort initiated in 2010, along with his colleagues at Mayo Clinic and the Translational Genomics Research Institute, Dr. Borad accomplished one of the first successful implementations of whole genome and transcriptome sequencing in a clinical workflow, providing the push for routine clinical genomic profiling in the clinic only a decade and a half later. He has served as a principal investigator in 50 phase 1 clinical studies and as a co-investigator in hundreds of additional trials.