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Lipika Goyal, MD

Stanford School of Medicine
Stanford, United States

Lipika Goyal, M.D., MPhil Dr. Goyal is the Director of Gastrointestinal Oncology in the Stanford Cancer Institute and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine in the Stanford School of Medicine.

Dr. Goyal completed her B.A. in the Biological Basis of Behavior at the University of Pennsylvania and then with the support of a Rhodes Scholarship, pursued a Master of Philosophy in Development Studies at the University of Oxford. She then pursued medical training at Harvard Medical School, the Brigham and Woman’s Hospital Internal Medicine Residency, and the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Hematology/Oncology Fellowship for her medical training. In 2013, she joined the faculty of the MGH Cancer Center as a medical oncologist in the Gastrointestinal Oncology group and later joined the Termeer Center for Target Therapy to pursue early phase drug development. In February 2023, she joined the faculty at Stanford.

Dr. Goyal was awarded the American Cancer Society Researcher of the Year Award in 2022 for her work on FGFR resistance in cholangiocarcinoma. In collaboration with a team of researchers, she is studying mechanisms of intrinsic and acquired resistance to FGFR inhibitors and novel approaches to delaying and overcoming resistance. Her clinical and translational research efforts broadly focus on the development of effective biomarkers and therapies for cholangiocarcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma, and she serves as the principle investigator for numerous clinical trials to provide access to novel therapeutics for her patients.

She has served on the Hepatobiliary Cancers Panel of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, the American Society of Clinical Oncology Education Committee, and the Steering Committee for National Cancer Institute Liver Cancer Moonshot Program. Her research is funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society, US Department of Defense, and the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation.

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