Intellectual Salon Series - Dr. Kayvan R. Keshari

​Dear friends, I am pleased to announce the next event of Intellectual Salon Series. The guest speaker will be Dr. Kayvan R. Keshari

​Dr. Kayvan Keshari received degrees in Biochemistry, Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill respectively, after which he completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in Biomedical imaging and Bioengineering. He joined Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2013 and is currently the Fred Lebow Chair and Director of the Center for Molecular Imaging and Bioengineering (CMIB) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is a Member (Professor) and Laboratory Head, with appointments in the Cell Biology Program of Sloan Kettering Institute as well as Radiology and Molecular Pharmacology. In addition, he is a Professor in the Gerstner Sloan Kettering School of Biomedical Sciences, founding Co-Director of the PhD program in Cancer Engineering and in multiple departments at Cornell University including Chemical Biology, Biophysics and Biochemistry. At MSK, the Keshari lab focuses on the interrogation of cancer metabolic processes and development of advanced multi-modality imaging. With changes in cancer metabolism as the driving force, the lab is interested in fundamental biochemical rates in vivo and mechanisms that can dramatically affect metabolic flux such as the redox state of the cell. Novel tools are developed to interrogate and exploit these mechanisms in living systems, which underlie fundamental cancer biology, drive aggressiveness and response to therapeutics. Leveraging these approaches, the lab aims to develop novel strategies to therapeutically target cancer.

​Topic will be: Making the Invisible Visible: Metabolic Imaging, Quantum Sensing, and the Future of Engineering Life.

​Join us for fascinating talk!