Pavithra Viswanath, PhD

Dr. Pavithra Viswanath is an associate professor in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at UCSF. She graduated with a PhD in Biochemistry from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. The overall vision of her research is to harness insights from tumor genetics, epigenetics and biology to drive the preclinical development of novel, metabolic imaging biomarkers that will ultimately benefit patients by enabling the non-invasive assessment of tumor burden and response to therapy. In parallel, she will pinpoint metabolic vulnerabilities that can be exploited for the development of novel therapeutic and theranostic agents. Her long-term goal is to work with clinical and translational colleagues at UCSF and beyond to enable clinical translation of the imaging methods, therapeutics and theranostics that come out of her preclinical studies.