Dr. Srinivasa Rao

I graduated with a degree in clinical medicine at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, India. Following this, I obtained a Master of Science (by research) degree at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras; my research during this period focused on the role of microRNAs in the regulation of the Wnt signalling pathway. I studied for DPhil at the University of Oxford (2010-2014), in the Bone Oncology group headed by Dr. Claire Edwards. In my postdoctoral work, I worked on varied projects including high throughput screening, image and video analysis, and genomic analysis of prostate cancers. My recent work has been focused on studying tumour evolution and intra-tumour heterogeneity in prostate cancer, using spatial-omics tools developed by my group as well as the wider community. In addition to genomic analysis, we leverage foundation pathology models and spatial data frameworks developed by the community to develop a multi-modal understanding of prostate tumour biology.