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Cullen College Recruits Leading Researcher In Gynecological Cancers
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Jeannie Kever
Rohith Reddy

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas has awarded UH $2 million to recruit cancer researcher Rohith Reddy, who focuses on next-generation technologies for detecting gynecological cancers. Reddy, currently a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School, will become an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UH.

The Institute, known as CPRIT, began making awards to Texas institutions in 2009 after voters approved a 2007 constitutional amendment committing $3 billion to cancer research and prevention. The 2017 awards to UH are part of $102 million in grants for 60 academic research, prevention and product development projects.

Reddy’s research involves innovative instrumentation for diagnosing gynecological cancers. Badri Roysam, chairman of the electrical and computer engineering department, said the work fits with the optical imaging and computational techniques that the department, part of the Cullen College of Engineering, brings to health care diagnostics and treatment.

“Our department is at the forefront of health care, and Dr. Reddy’s work is expected to revolutionize the early detection and characterization of gynecological cancers,” Roysam said. The department received a CPRIT recruitment grant in 2014 to hire David Mayerich, now a successful assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering who works in biomedical imaging.

Reddy’s project involves translating cancer genomics research into outpatient settings, allowing for targeted imaging-guided tissue extraction for biopsy and the identification of cancer markers.

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