Biography
Kavindra Nath is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Molecular Imaging Laboratory. He did his M.Sc. in Biochemistry from Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University, and Ph.D. in Life Science (Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy; MRI/MRS) from C.S.J.M. University/S.G.P.G.I.M.S., U.P., India. In Ph.D. he studied patients with intracranial mass lesions using MRI and MRS techniques. His current research is utilizing multi-nuclear (1H, 31P, 13C) MRS and other techniques in vitro and in vivo in order to delineate the mode of action of various monocarboxylate transport (MCTs), mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC) and electron transport chain (ETC) inhibitors, which distinguishes normal cells from malignant cells and potentiates the activities of various chemotherapeutic drugs, hyperthermia and radiation therapy in a variety of human cancers.