Professor of Medicine and Professor of Pharmacological Sciences
Chief, Division of Cancer Prevention and
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology
e-mail: basil.rigas@stonybrook.edu
(631) 632-9166
Basil Rigas, M.D., D.Sc. graduated from Athens University and did postgraduate work at
Brown (Medicine), Brandeis (Biochemistry), and Yale (Gastroenterology at Yale-New Haven Hospital
and Molecular Biology in the Department of Human Genetics). He served on the faculty at Cornell
University (Departments of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology), Rockefeller University and the
Institute for Cancer Prevention (formerly known as the American Health Foundation). Currently,
he is a Professor of Medicine and also of Pharmacological Sciences and serves as Chief of the Division of
Cancer Prevention, Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Director of the Center for Cancer Prevention at Stony Brook, an interdisciplinary center established by the School of Medicine and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University.
During the last several years he has focused his efforts on the prevention of colon cancer
using traditional NSAIDs, NO-donating NSAIDs and other pharmacological agents. He has also pioneered the application
of infrared spectroscopy to biology with emphasis on cancer holding several relevant patents. A new area of work concerns the use of nanotechnology in the prevention of cancer.
Dr. Rigas was recently featured on the cover of the International Journal of Oncology, accompanied by his biographical profile.
• View Recent Publications
 |
| Clinical Gastroenterology, written by Basil Rigas, translated in three languages |
|
