Ananth Annapragada, PhD

Ananth Annapragada is an Associate Professor in the School of Health Information Sciences at the University of Texas, Health Sciences Center at Houston. He holds additional positions at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the Keck Institute for Computational and Structural Biology, The University of Houston, Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin. He joined UT in August 2003, after 3 years at the Cleveland Clinic/Cleveland State University Program in Biomedical Engineerng, where he was Associate Professor and Program Director.
 
Ananth received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from The University of Michigan in 1989. After Post-Doctoral Fellowships at the University of Minnesota and MIT, he joined Abbott Laboratories as a Research Scientist in 1991. In 1996, he joined SEQUUS Pharmaceuticals, Menlo Park, CA. He stayed with SEQUUS through its merger with ALZA, and when ALZA was acquired by Johnson and Johnson, he left for his first Academic position in Cleveland in 2000. In 2003, he moved to Texas, and his current position.
 
Ananth directs the Laboratory for Computational Biology and Delivery Systems (LCBDS)
at UT. His research interests are in drug and contrast agent delivery, particularly physical and receptor targeting processes.

Ananth is a co-founder of a biotech company based on research originating in his laboratory. Marval Therapeutics Inc. was founded in 2002, and progressed via grant funding from the State of Ohio and the SBIR program. In 2007, it was merged with Marval Biosciences Inc. as part of the closing of it’s A-round financing.  Marval focuses on a liposomal nanoparticle based contrast agent for CT. For further details on Marval, please contact it’s CEO, Russ Lebovitz, M.D., Ph.D, at rlebovitz@suma.com