Director of Clinical Research
START Midwest
Dr. Nehal Lakhani is the Director of Clinical research at START-Midwest and is a Medical Oncologist based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He completed his medical training at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India in 2000. Following the completion of his medical training, he pursued a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences focusing on Pharmacokinetics and early phase drug development of oncology drugs at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD. He was also a Fogarty Fellow at National Institutes of Health between years 2001 through 2005. He subsequently pursued training in Internal Medicine at Michigan State University program and completed Medical Oncology/Hematology fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. He has also served as the NCI-FDA Interagency Oncology Task Force Fellow. His clinical research interests include early phase drug development and clinical pharmacology trials for solid tumor malignancies.
