Rajvir Dahiya holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Medicine from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Chandigarh, India. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship in medical oncology research from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, earned an M.D. from the Kagoshima University Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima, Japan, and received a D.Sc. from the Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan. He became Director of the Urology Oncology Research Center at UCSF/VAMC in 1991. After 34 years of service, he retired as a Professor Emeritus and Director of the Urology Research Center. Dahiya has published more than 550 original research manuscripts. His world ranking in medicine is 4759 and USA ranking is 2644, with more than 35,500 research citations and a D-index of 107 in 2024. He has written books and holds multiple patents in oncology. Based on the NIH and VA databases (NIH RePORTER and Grantome), Dahiya's research programs were supported (99 times awarded) by the NIH and VA. Currently, he is an associate editor of the “Clinical Cancer Research” journal.