Nikhil Khushalani, MD

Moffitt Cancer Center

Dr. Khushalani is the Vice-Chair and Senior Member in the Department of Cutaneous Oncology at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL and he serves as an advisor on HBI-8000. He also serves as the Assistant Center Director for Clinical Research Review and Partnerships. He earned his M.D. from Topiwala National Medical College, University of Bombay, India in 1995. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency at the State University of New York, Buffalo followed by a fellowship in Medical Oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY in 2002. Dr. Khushalani is an experienced clinical investigator with expertise in immunotherapy and molecular targeted therapy in skin cancer. His clinical research is focused on treatment for refractory melanoma, treating uveal melanoma, and designing novel clinical trials in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma working with ideas from laboratory research at Moffitt to translate into the clinic. He has held committee positions with ASCO and NCCN and served as a grant reviewer for NIH/NCI and the Department of Defense. Dr. Khushalani was on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Oncology from 2022-2025.