VK Gadi, MD, PhD

A physician-scientist, VK Gadi, MD, PhD, is Deputy Director of the University of Illinois Cancer Center and a medical oncologist at UI Health, specializing in breast cancer. His laboratory and clinical research has also focused primarily on breast cancer. He is Professor and Director of Medical Oncology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at UIC in the Division of Hematology and Oncology. He joined UIC in 2020 after 20 years in Seattle at the University of Washington, where he did his postgraduate training, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Since coming to Chicago, he has worked to stabilize, expand and diversify the clinical and research workforce focused on solid tumor malignancies in the Cancer Center’s catchment area of Cook County, the second most populous county in the U.S. and one of the most diverse catchment areas in the nation. Working closely with Cancer Center leaders, he continues to lead efforts to identify and recruit novel molecular assets for clinical trials testing from both big pharmaceutical companies and smaller biotechs. His efforts have increased national-level engagement for cooperative group studies and provided access to Cancer Center disease team leaders for clinical trial development opportunities to ensure trials are written to address the needs of diverse patient populations. In collaboration with several groups of investigators and UIC technology transfer, he also is accelerating the process of commercialization of multiple diagnostic and therapeutic intellectual properties to build a sustainable licensing revenue stream to support Cancer Center activities.

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June 1993 B.S., University of Alabama at Birmingham¸ Department of Biology,
Birmingham, Alabama
January 1999 Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham¸ Department of Physiology
Birmingham, Alabama
June 2000 M.D. University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine
Birmingham, Alabama

Licensures

2002-2022                     Washington State Medical Assurance

2005-2020                     Washington State, DEA

2020 - Present               Illinois (IFDPR) (active)

Board Certifications

2003 - 2013                       Board Certificate in Internal Medicine

2005 - Present                  Board Certificate in Medical Oncology

American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG)

Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium (BTCRC)

1. Broker TR, Sorscher EJ, Chow LT, Zou N, Gadi VK.  Human papillomavirus vectors for the episomal transduction of host cells and methods of making same.  PCT/US98/22476.
2. Parker WB, Waud W, Gadi VK, Sorscher EJ.  Creation of recombinant E. coli that over-expresses PNP for therapeutic gene delivery to tumor cells.  PCT/US60/64676.
3. Nelson JL, Lambert NC, Gadi VK, Zhen Y. Compositions and Methods for Detecting Allogeneic Matter in a Subject. PCT/US2013/028733.