Pratik Shah

Tenure Line Faculty Member, University of California. Dr. Pratik Shah is a faculty member at the University of California and directs a computational medicine research group for hypothesis-driven deep learning, engineering, and biomedical research to discover novel biological and clinical knowledge for inventing translational medical technologies to diagnose and treat cancer, infectious, and neurological diseases. He also has significant expertise and motivation for real-world clinical evaluations of research findings. Research in his lab builds a unified scaffolding of novel deep learning, biological, and statistical reasoning methods to resolve distinct hypothesis driven research problems including, for example, how to diagnose and treat cancer disease, how to leverage causal structures in observational data for unbiased patient centered medicine, and how infectious microbes and host cells adapt during disease –under a single theoretical and methodological framework. His research group aims to establish a new theory and practice for computational medicine research by moving the field from a static snapshot to a fully dynamic and living-systems wide perspective of molecular and clinical processes. Dr. Shah and his team are motivated to invent and deploy pragmatic and equitable medical technology for improving health and managing diseases. Key goals are: 1) Research and invention of deep learning, medical imaging and biomedical engineering technologies to generate fundamental insights in biology and clinical medicine; 2) application and translation of these emerging technologies into novel diagnostics and therapeutics; and 3) empowering patients, physicians, researchers, and regulators for making informed and equitable healthcare decisions. Recent work from his lab has been published in Cell Reports Methods, Nature Digital Medicine, Cell press, Journal of American Medical Association, IEEE conferences, and Proceedings of National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine workshops. Pratik serves on the grant reviewer board of US government agencies and foundations supporting patient-centric research. Past acknowledgments include the American Society for Microbiology’s Raymond W. Sarber National Award, a Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospitals ECOR Fund for Medical Discovery postdoctoral fellowship, AAAS-Lemelson Foundation Invention Ambassador award, coverage by leading national and international news media outlets. Pratik has been an invited discussion leader at Gordon Research Seminars; a speaker at American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Gordon Research Conferences, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, TED and IEEE bioengineering conferences; and a peer reviewer for leading scientific publications. Pratik has BS, MS, and PhD degrees in biological sciences and completed fellowship training at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Harvard Medical School. More information about Pratik's research lab at: https://www.pratiks.info/research/university-of-california/ Connect at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pratikshahuci/ Follow: @PratikShahPhD