His research aims to create novel delivery and tissue modulation approaches for advanced therapies, including drug, gene, cell, cell-free, and thermal treatments.
PALO ALTO, CA, August 08, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Avnesh S. Thakor, MD, PhD, has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Leveraging over 20 years of clinical, research, and translational experience, Dr. Thakor is a British-born physician-scientist who excels as a pediatric interventional radiologist and researcher at Stanford University. He extensively studied and trained at the University of Cambridge in the UK, receiving a Masters (MA), Doctor of Medicine (MD), and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees, in addition to his Medical Degree (MB BChir). He then went on to complete his general medicine and surgical clinical internships and radiology residency, followed by interventional radiology fellowships focusing on vascular interventions (University of Cambridge, UK), oncological interventions (University of British Columbia, Canada), and pediatric interventions (University of Toronto, Canada). He then joined the prestigious university at Stanford in 2015, where he currently stands at the helm of Interventional Radiology Innovation at Stanford (IRIS), a translational, multidisciplinary NIH-funded laboratory which specializes in both forward and reverse clinical translation of therapies. Here, his team focuses on stem cell therapies for tissue regeneration and innovative new Precision Delivery approaches. In this regard, Dr. Thakor's research aims to create novel delivery and tissue modulation approaches for advanced therapies, including drug, gene, cell, cell-free, and thermal treatments. His accomplishments have been internationally recognized, being recently awarded as a distinguished investigator from the Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research, with his ideas attracting significant intra and extramural funding.
Dr Thakor specializes in performing islet transplantation to treat and prevent diabetes in adult and pediatric patients at Stanford, and serves as the medical director of the Pancreatic Islet Transplantation Program at the children's hospital. In addition, he has developed several clinical programs to help treat children using minimally invasive image guided techniques. His clinical practice predominantly involves treating children using cutting-edge techniques, including focused ultrasound and other thermal ablative modalities for soft tissue tumors, intravascular therapy delivery, and undertaking highly specific targeted biopsies to guide clinical care. He has also been recognized as a Fellow of the Society of Interventional Radiologists; a prestigious recognition only awarded to select Interventional Radiologists based on their contribution to patient care and the mission of the specialty. He serves as a primary investigator and co-investigator on several clinical trials, is a trusted advisor to biotech start-ups and larger companies, and is internationally recognized for his contributions to patient care and medical innovation, often being invited as a lecturer and panel moderator at conferences worldwide and reviewer of papers and grants.
Dr. Thakor is also a successful entrepreneur and co-founded Teal Health, where he developed an at-home self-collect cervical cancer screening device. Teal Health provides a telehealth platform specifically for women to give them the tools, access, and resources they need to make empowered decisions concerning their health, such as cervical cancer screenings. This company allows patients to perform their examinations, increasing access to screenings, particularly in underserved communities.
Dr. Thakor is a passionate proponent of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice, contributing to local communities by providing opportunities to college students – especially those from marginalized backgrounds – through STEM college outreach, the Meharry Medical College for students from historically black backgrounds, the STEP-UP program at the NIH, and local internship programs. Moreover, he assists students at Stanford University in preparing for Rhodes-Marshall Scholarship applications, where he helps with interview and application guidance. As a physician-scientist and leader, he emphasizes the importance of encompassing diverse pools of talent and supporting and guiding the emerging next generation of health care providers and scientists to ensure an inclusive future.
Looking toward the future, Dr. Thakor endeavors aims to advance Precision Delivery techniques and approaches across different organ systems, to enable a wide range of therapies to reach their full potential to help adult and pediatric patients across the globe.
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