Victor Velculescu

Who is Victor Velculescu?

Victor E. Velculescu is a Romanian/American doctor and scientist. He is Associate Professor of Oncology and Co-Director of Cancer Biology at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at The Johns Hopkins University.

After graduating from Stanford University with a B.S. in Biological Sciences, he enrolled in the M.D./Ph.D program at The Johns Hopkins University. Velculescu and his team gained international recognition after identifying the genes that cause breast cancer and colon cancer. His research aims have been focused on identifying genes that underlie human cancer and using this information to develop novel approaches for diagnostic and therapeutic intervention. He also invented the SAGE methodology for detecting gene expression from multiple genes in a single experiment.