Dr. Aggarwal is currently a Founding Director of the Inflammation Research Center in San Diego, California. He is also currently serving on the Advisory Board of several Nutraceutical companies. Until December 31st, 2015, Dr. Aggarwal was a Ransom Horne Distinguished Professor of Experimental Therapeutics, Cancer Research, Cancer Medicine, Biochemistry and Immunology; and Chief of the Cytokine Research Section, in the Department of Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. He also served as a member of the University of Texas, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, and as an Adjunct Professor at Albert B. Alkek Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University, Houston, Texas.
Dr. Aggarwal arrived in the United States as a National Scholar of the Government of India and earned his Ph. D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. He then joined as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Hormone Research Laboratory at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco while being supported by the Rockfeller Foundation Fellowship.
He has published over 700 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, invited reviews and book chapters.
Dr. Aggarwal is inventor/co-inventor on over 33 patents. He has been listed as one of the most highly cited scientist by the Institute of Scientific Information in the World. His publications exhibit high citations with over twenty publications exceeding 1000. His overall citation till now is 128,210 with an H-index of 186 and the most highly cited for 2016 in Pharmacology & Toxicology.
Dr. Aggarwal has been listed among top 100 most highly influential biomedical researchers in the world.