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David Agus
Agus at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2013
Alma materPrinceton University (1987)
University of Pennsylvania
Known for
  • Professor of Medicine and Engineering
  • Co-founder of Navigenics
  • Co-founder of Applied Proteomics
  • The End of Illness (2012)
  • A Short Guide to a Long Life (2014)
Children2
Scientific career
Fields

David B. Agus (/ˈeɪgəs/) is an American physician and author[1] who serves as a professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering[2] and the Founding Director and CEO of the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine.[3] He is also the cofounder of several personalized medicine companies[4][5][6][7] and a contributor to CBS News on health topics.[8]

Agus's field of expertise is advanced cancer.[7] He has developed new cancer treatments with the aid of private foundations, as well as national agencies including the National Cancer Institute.[6] Agus has also served as chair of the Global Agenda Council on Genetics for the World Economic Forum.[9]  

Early life and education

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Agus grew up in Baltimore.[10] He graduated cum laude in molecular biology from Princeton University in 1987 and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in 1991.[11] He completed his residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital and completed his oncology fellowship training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.[7][12] He spent two years at the National Institutes of Health as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NIH Research Scholar.[13][14]

Career

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Agus has had a long and varied career. At the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine, he leads a team researching prevention and treatments for cancer.[15] He also maintains an oncology practice to apply his team's research discoveries to the patients under his care.[16] At the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, he was an attending physician in the Department of Medical Oncology and head of the Laboratory of Tumor Biology. He was also Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cornell University Medical Center.[17]

As director of the Spielberg Family Center for Applied Proteomics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, he led a multidisciplinary team of researchers dedicated to the development and use of proteomic technologies to guide doctors in making health-care decisions tailored to individual needs. The center grew out of earlier clinical projects at Cedars-Sinai, where Agus served as an attending physician in oncology, which observed striking differences between the aggressiveness of prostate cancer in certain patients and their ability to respond to treatment.[18][19]

Agus's research has focused on the use of technology to model cancer and on new treatments for cancer.[20][21]

He has founded and co-founded several companies including Oncology.com,[22] Navigenics (a personalized medicine company),[21] Applied Proteomics (together with Danny Hillis),[21] Sensei (wellness and lifestyle company, together with Larry Ellison),[23] and Sensei Agriculture.[23]

In 2021, Agus and the Ellison Institute launched Global Health Security Consortium, a joint global effort with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and Sir John Bell and a team of scientists at the University of Oxford, focused on finding ways to track and treat COVID-19 and prevent future pandemics.[24][25]

Plagiarism controversy

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On March 6, 2023, the Los Angeles Times reported that "at least 95 separate passages" in Agus' book The Book of Animal Secrets: Nature's Lessons for a Long and Happy Life were plagiarized, with the word choice in some instances found to be identical to that in existing sources. The book was initially set to be released the following day by Simon and Schuster, but after the article's publication, it was postponed until the sections in question could be rewritten. Agus issued a public apology.[26]

On March 17, 2023, the Times further reported that Agus's first three books; The End of Illness, A Short Guide to a Long Life, and The Lucky Years: How to Thrive in the Brave New World of Health, contained over 120 instances where passages were identical to other texts from sources including books, articles in scientific journals, science blogs, online articles and Wikipedia articles. Almost all of the copied paragraphs or passages did not attribute the original authors. Augus stated he was not aware of, nor had any involvement in the passages that were supposedly plagairised and stated the specific passages were written by his co-writer Kristen Loberg.[27]

Television show

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Agus hosted a Paramount+ television show titled The Check Up with Dr. David Agus, which was broadcast starting in December 2022. In the show, Agus discussed different medical issues with celebrity guests who have experience with those health concerns.[28]

References

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  1. ^ "David B. Agus, MD | Keck School of Medicine of USC". July 31, 2018.
  2. ^ "David Agus". TEDMED. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  3. ^ "Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine". Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  4. ^ Hsieh, Nathaniel (October 15, 2012). "Prof focuses on cancer prevention". Daily Trojan. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  5. ^ "Ellison-Agus' Sensei separating farm, retreat units". mauinews.com. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  6. ^ a b Belvedere, Matthew J. (January 13, 2016). "Top cancer doctor: Do these things to live longer". CNBC. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  7. ^ a b c "How a Los Angeles doctor got swept up in the White House's Covid-19 response". STAT. April 29, 2020. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  8. ^ "Dr. David Agus". CBS News. October 9, 2014.
  9. ^ "WVUToday Archive". wvutoday-archive.wvu.edu. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  10. ^ Seukunian, Matthew (September 23, 2014). "Dr. David Agus: A Rebel With Due Cause". C-Suite Quarterly. Retrieved May 3, 2023.
  11. ^ "1990s Donors". Medical Alumni Donors. Penn Medicine Alumni. Retrieved November 27, 2011.
  12. ^ USC. "David B. Agus, M.D." Archived November 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved May 7, 2009.
  13. ^ "Beyond the Dome". www.hopkinsmedicine.org. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
  14. ^ "David Agus, M.D. Profile at UCLA". web.archive.org. July 10, 2010. Archived from the original on July 10, 2010. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
  15. ^ "David Agus, M.D. – Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine". Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  16. ^ "Dr. David B. Agus, MD". U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on August 25, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  17. ^ "Geoffrey Beene | David Agus". Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  18. ^ "David Agus takes helm at USC Westside Cancer Center and Center for Applied Molecular Medicine". Nanowerk. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
  19. ^ Entrepreneurs' Organization. "Power Speakers" Archived February 17, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved May 6, 2009
  20. ^ "David B. Agus, MD". Keck Medicine.
  21. ^ a b c Belvedere, Matthew J. (January 13, 2016). "Top cancer doctor: Do these things to live longer". CNBC. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
  22. ^ Hsieh, Nathaniel (October 15, 2012). "Prof focuses on cancer prevention". Daily Trojan. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
  23. ^ a b "Ellison-Agus' Sensei separating farm, retreat units". mauinews.com. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
  24. ^ "Dr. David Agus announces new global initiative to track COVID variants using genomic sequencing". CBS News. May 7, 2021. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
  25. ^ "The perilously small supply of psychiatrists". Politico. October 24, 2022. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  26. ^ "Dr. David Agus accused of plagiarism, prompting book recall". CBS News. March 6, 2023. Retrieved March 7, 2023.
  27. ^ "Examination of USC doctor's earlier books finds more troubling instances of plagiarism". Los Angeles Times. March 17, 2023.
  28. ^ Ted Johnson (November 29, 2022). "Paramount+ To Debut Dr. David Agus Docuseries Featuring Conversations With Ashton Kutcher, Nick Cannon And Other Celebrities About Their Health Struggles". Deadline. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
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