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David B. Agus () is an American physician and author specializing in advanced cancer. He serves as professor of medicine and biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering, as well as the founding director and CEO of the Larry Ellison. He is also the cofounder of several personalized medicine companies and a contributor to CBS News on health topics.
Agus has developed new cancer treatments with the aid of private foundations, as well as national agencies including the National Cancer Institute. Agus has also served as chair of the Global Agenda Council on Genetics for the World Economic Forum.
As director of the Spielberg Family Center for Applied Proteomics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, he led multidisciplinary research on the development and use of proteomic technologies to guide individualized medical treatment. 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.Entrepreneurs' Organization. "Power Speakers" Retrieved May 6, 2009
In 2009, he joined the University of Southern California, where he is professor of medicine and biomedical engineering at the USC Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering. That year, he became founding director of the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine at USC.
Agus is the founding director and CEO of the Ellison Medical Institute, which researches preventive medicine and treatments for cancer. The institute was established in 2016 with a $200 million donation from Larry Ellison.
Agus's research has focused on the use of technology to model cancer and on new cancer treatments. He also maintains an oncology practice to apply his team's research discoveries to the patients under his care.
He has founded and co-founded several companies, including Oncology.com, Navigenics, a personalized medicine company, Applied Proteomics, co-founded with Danny Hillis, Sensei, a wellness and lifestyle company co-founded with Larry Ellison, and Sensei Agriculture.
On March 6, 2023, the Los Angeles Times reported that "at least 95 separate passages" in Agus's 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.
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. Agus stated he was not aware of, nor had any involvement in, the passages that were supposedly plagiarised and noted the specific passages were written by his co-writer Kristin Loberg. Several other works that co-written by Loberg were found to have contained plagiarism, including David Perlmutter's Grain Brain (2013), which plagiarized The End of Illness.
His book was adapted into a television special titled The End of Illness with Dr. David B. Agus which aired on PBS in 2012. In 2013, Agus became a contributor to CBS News.
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