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Anirban Maitra obtained his medical degree from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, in 1996; this was followed by residency and fellowships in pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore. From 2002 to 2013, he served as faculty in the departments of pathology and oncology at Johns Hopkins, before being recruited to the MD Anderson Cancer Center as Professor of Pathology and Translational Molecular Pathology and Scientific Director of the Sheikh Ahmed Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research.