Dr. Muneesh Tewari
Dr. Muneesh Tewari, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Hematology/Oncology
University of Michigan Health System
Education
B.A.: Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University (1990)
Ph.D.: Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Michigan (1997)
M.D.: University of Michigan Medical School (1997)
Research Interests
Dr. Tewari is the Ray and Ruth Anderson-Laurence Sprague Memorial Research Professor and Associate Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine (Hematology/Oncology Division) and Biomedical Engineering. His primary research interests include the biochemistry of circulating and extracellular microRNAs, bioinformatics and computational biology, and point-of-care technologies for nucleic acid analysis. Dr. Tewari's laboratory is developing next generation biomarker-based methods for early ovarian cancer detection and disease monitoring. The current biomarker paradigm involves comparing a measurement from a single time-point to a reference range from "normal" individuals in the population. Dr. Tewari hopes to transform this approach by developing methods to enable frequent, non-invasive measurements to capture a patient's pattern and trajectory over time. To accomplish this goal, his team is working at the forefront of technology development and application while pursuing fundamental translational research on biomarkers and their relationship to physiology. Consistent with his interdisciplinary approach, Dr. Tewari has additional faculty appointments and faculty collaborators in the Biointerfaces Institute and in the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics.
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B.A.: Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University (1990)
Ph.D.: Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Michigan (1997)
M.D.: University of Michigan Medical School (1997)
Research Interests
Dr. Tewari is the Ray and Ruth Anderson-Laurence Sprague Memorial Research Professor and Associate Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine (Hematology/Oncology Division) and Biomedical Engineering. His primary research interests include the biochemistry of circulating and extracellular microRNAs, bioinformatics and computational biology, and point-of-care technologies for nucleic acid analysis. Dr. Tewari's laboratory is developing next generation biomarker-based methods for early ovarian cancer detection and disease monitoring. The current biomarker paradigm involves comparing a measurement from a single time-point to a reference range from "normal" individuals in the population. Dr. Tewari hopes to transform this approach by developing methods to enable frequent, non-invasive measurements to capture a patient's pattern and trajectory over time. To accomplish this goal, his team is working at the forefront of technology development and application while pursuing fundamental translational research on biomarkers and their relationship to physiology. Consistent with his interdisciplinary approach, Dr. Tewari has additional faculty appointments and faculty collaborators in the Biointerfaces Institute and in the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics.
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