Professor Rada Savic

Biography

Dr. Rada Savic is a Professor at the University of California San Francisco, Associate Director of the UCSF Center for TB, and a Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. Her research focuses on data integration and the transformative potential of computational tools and artificial intelligence to advance drug development and routine drug therapy in infectious diseases including special populations such as children and pregnant women. She applies innovative, quantitative and systems pharmacology methods to propose optimized and precision dosing strategies, data-driven risk stratification algorithms, and inspire new clinical simulation tools across the infectious disease landscape.  Dr. Savic is a world recognized pharmacologist and expert on drug regimen design and optimal dosing approaches. She was named the 2021 Leon I. Goldberg Early Investigator Award recipient and a Chan- Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator in 2022.