Mekhail Anwar

Job title: 
Professor
Affiliation: 
Affiliated BSAC Faculty Member
Professor Bernhard E. Boser (Advisor)
PostDoc 2014
Bio/CV: 

Mekhail Anwar is an affilated BSAC faculty member and Associate Professor in Residence in the Radiation Oncology Department at UCSF, with an affiliate appointment in our department. Professor Anwar's research areas include many areas within the broad area of electronic circuits and devices.


Dr. Anwar's goal is to solve the fundamental and persistent challenge in cancer – identifying where all tumor cells are and how patients respond to treatment – opening the door to truly precision, personalized medicine. I develop imaging and biosensing tools using microfabricated sensors, custom molecularly-targeted imaging agents, and novel nanoparticles to identify tumor cells and guide surgery and radiotherapy with unprecedented precision deep within the body. Find out more from Google Scholar at http://bit.ly/36VOayp , NIH http://bit.ly/2tTRgEs.

These sensors – built on a platform of computer chip technology – essentially place the physician inside the patient and allow us to see and understand cancer in new detail. To accomplish this, our team of researchers works closely with clinical teams, to develop the tools to fight even the most challenging cancers. We have developed imagers smaller than a pin’s head and thinner than a human hair using standard fluorophores and novel inorganic nanoparticles allowing us to see cells and sense molecules directly within patients.

In parallel, Dr. Anwar focuses on treating challenging cancers like pancreas and liver tumors using targeted radiotherapy and radiosurgery. The combination of these efforts enables our translational research program.

Publications

Projects & Publications

Micah Roschelle; Rozhan Rabbani; Surin Gweon; Rohan Kumar; Alec Vercruysse; Nam Woo Cho; Matthew H. Spitzer; Ali M. Niknejad; Vladimir Stojanović; Mekhail Anwar
Journal Article, 2024
Rozhan Rabbani; Micah Roschelle; Surin Gweon; Rohan Kumar; Alec Vercruysse; Nam Woo Cho; Matthew H. Spitzer; Ali M. Niknejad; Vladimir Stojanović; Mekhail Anwar
Conference Paper (Proceedings), 2024
Rozhan Rabbani; Hossein Najafi; Micah Roschelle; Efthymios Papageorgiou; Rebekah Zhao; Mohammad Merah Ghanbari; Rikky Muller; Vladimir Stojanović; Mekhail Anwar
Journal Article, 2024
Micah Roschelle; Rozhan Rabbani; Efthymios Papageorgiou; Hui Zhang; Matthew Cooperberg; Bradley A. Stohr; Ali M. Niknejad; Mekhail Anwar
Journal Article, 2024
Rozhan Rabbani; Micah Roschelle; Mekhail Anwar
BSAC Project Materials (Current), 2023
Hossein Najafi; Mekhail Anwar
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2021
Efthymios Papageorgiou; Bernhard E. Boser; Mekhail Anwar; Gerard Marriott
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019
Efthymios Papageorgiou; Rozhan Rabban; Rebekah Zhao; Mekhail Anwar
BSAC Project Materials (Final/Archive), 2019