University of California San Francisco
Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Renuka Sriram, PhD

Renuka Sriram, PhD

Assistant Researcher and Co-Director of Biomedical NMR Facility, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF

Cancer Center Program Memberships

Prostate Cancer
Renuka.Sriram@ucsf.edu

Box 2520, UCSF

San Francisco, CA 94143-2520

UCSF Profiles

Education

University of Madras, Chennai, India, B.Engg., 05/1996, Instrumentation and Control Engineering
University of California Davis, CA, Ph.D., 12/2007, BioPhysics
University of California San Francisco, CA, Postdoc, 09/2015, Magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging, Hyperpolarized MRI

Professional Experience

  • 2008-2011
    Senior Imaging Scientist, Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT
  • 2011-2015
    Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF
  • 2015-present
    Assistant Researcher, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF
  • 2017-present
    Co-Director of Biomedical NMR Facility, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF

Honors & Awards

  • 2003
    Non resident Tuition Fellowship, Biophysics Graduate Group, UC Davis
  • 2008
    Pfizer Global Research Centers of Excellence award for Delivery
  • 2009
    Individual Performance Award, Pfizer

Selected Publications

  1. Korenchan DE, Bok R, Sriram R, Liu K, Santos RD, Qin H, Lobach I, Korn N, Wilson DM, Kurhanewicz J, Flavell RR. Hyperpolarized in vivo pH imaging reveals grade-dependent acidification in prostate cancer. Oncotarget. 2019 Oct 22; 10(58):6096-6110.
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  2. Chung BT, Chen HY, Gordon J, Mammoli D, Sriram R, Autry AW, Le Page LM, Chaumeil M, Shin P, Slater J, Tan CT, Suszczynski C, Chang S, Li Y, Bok RA, Ronen SM, Larson PEZ, Kurhanewicz J, Vigneron DB. First hyperpolarized [2-13C]pyruvate MR studies of human brain metabolism. J Magn Reson. 2019 Oct 08; 309:106617.
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  3. Wang S, Korenchan DE, Perez PM, Taglang C, Hayes TR, Sriram R, Bok R, Hong AS, Wu Y, Li H, Wang Z, Kurhanewicz J, Wilson DM, Flavell RR. Amino Acid-Derived Sensors for Specific Zn2+ Detection Using Hyperpolarized 13 C Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Chemistry. 2019 Sep 12; 25(51):11842-11846.
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  4. Korenchan DE, Gordon JW, Subramaniam S, Sriram R, Baligand C, VanCriekinge M, Bok R, Vigneron DB, Wilson DM, Larson PEZ, Kurhanewicz J, Flavell RR. Using bidirectional chemical exchange for improved hyperpolarized [13 C]bicarbonate pH imaging. Magn Reson Med. 2019 Sep; 82(3):959-972.
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  5. Muir RK, Zhao N, Wei J, Wang YH, Moroz A, Huang Y, Chen YC, Sriram R, Kurhanewicz J, Ruggero D, Renslo AR, Evans MJ. Measuring Dynamic Changes in the Labile Iron Pool in Vivo with a Reactivity-Based Probe for Positron Emission Tomography. ACS Cent Sci. 2019 Apr 24; 5(4):727-736.
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  6. Bancroft Brown J, Sriram R, VanCriekinge M, Delos Santos R, Sun J, Delos Santos J, Tabatabai ZL, Shinohara K, Nguyen H, Peehl DM, Kurhanewicz J. NMR quantification of lactate production and efflux and glutamate fractional enrichment in living human prostate biopsies cultured with [1,6-13 C2 ]glucose. Magn Reson Med. 2019 Aug; 82(2):566-576.
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  7. Bok R, Lee J, Sriram R, Keshari K, Sukumar S, Daneshmandi S, Korenchan DE, Flavell RR, Vigneron DB, Kurhanewicz J, Seth P. The Role of Lactate Metabolism in Prostate Cancer Progression and Metastases Revealed by Dual-Agent Hyperpolarized 13C MRSI. Cancers (Basel). 2019 Feb 22; 11(2).
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  8. Sriram R, Gordon J, Baligand C, Ahamed F, Delos Santos J, Qin H, Bok RA, Vigneron DB, Kurhanewicz J, Larson PEZ, Wang ZJ. Non-Invasive Assessment of Lactate Production and Compartmentalization in Renal Cell Carcinomas Using Hyperpolarized 13C Pyruvate MRI. Cancers (Basel). 2018 Sep 05; 10(9).
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  9. Lee JE, Diederich CJ, Bok R, Sriram R, Santos RD, Noworolski SM, Salgaonkar VA, Adams MS, Vigneron DB, Kurhanewicz J. Assessing high-intensity focused ultrasound treatment of prostate cancer with hyperpolarized 13 C dual-agent imaging of metabolism and perfusion. NMR Biomed. 2018 Jul 18; e3962.
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  10. Sriram R, Nguyen J, Santos JD, Nguyen L, Sun J, Vigneron S, Van Criekinge M, Kurhanewicz J, MacKenzie JD. Molecular detection of inflammation in cell models using hyperpolarized 13C-pyruvate. Theranostics. 2018; 8(12):3400-3407.
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  11. Qin H, Carroll VN, Sriram R, Villanueva-Meyer JE, von Morze C, Wang ZJ, Mutch CA, Keshari KR, Flavell RR, Kurhanewicz J, Wilson DM. Imaging glutathione depletion in the rat brain using ascorbate-derived hyperpolarized MR and PET probes. Sci Rep. 2018 05 21; 8(1):7928.
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  12. Taglang C, Korenchan DE, von Morze C, Yu J, Najac C, Wang S, Blecha JE, Subramaniam S, Bok R, VanBrocklin HF, Vigneron DB, Ronen SM, Sriram R, Kurhanewicz J, Wilson DM, Flavell RR. Late-stage deuteration of 13C-enriched substrates for T1 prolongation in hyperpolarized 13C MRI. Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 May 17; 54(41):5233-5236.
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  13. Mutch CA, Ordonez AA, Qin H, Parker M, Bambarger LE, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Blecha J, Carroll V, Taglang C, Flavell R, Sriram R, VanBrocklin H, Rosenberg O, Ohliger MA, Jain SK, Neumann KD, Wilson DM. [11C]Para-Aminobenzoic Acid: A Positron Emission Tomography Tracer Targeting Bacteria-Specific Metabolism. ACS Infect Dis. 2018 07 13; 4(7):1067-1072.
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  14. Truillet C, Parker MFL, Huynh LT, Wei J, Jami KM, Wang YH, Shen YS, Sriram R, Wilson DM, Kurhanewicz J, Evans MJ. Measuring glucocorticoid receptor expression in vivo with PET. Oncotarget. 2018 Apr 17; 9(29):20399-20408.
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  15. Sriram R, Sun J, Villanueva-Meyer J, Mutch C, De Los Santos J, Peters J, Korenchan DE, Neumann K, Van Criekinge M, Kurhanewicz J, Rosenberg O, Wilson D, Ohliger MA. Detection of Bacteria-Specific Metabolism Using Hyperpolarized [2-13C]Pyruvate. ACS Infect Dis. 2018 05 11; 4(5):797-805.
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  16. Ilwoo Park, Adam Autry, Xiaodong Yang, Yuying Zhai, Renuka Sriram, Dave Korenchan, John Kurhanewicz, Adam Cunha, I-Chow Hsu, Sarah Nelson, Sabine Mueller. PDTM-20. NONINVASIVE ASSESSMENT OF TREATMENT RESPONSE FOR DIFFUSE INTRINSIC PONTINE GLIOMA USING HYPERPOLARIZED 13C METABOLIC IMAGING. Neuro-Oncology. 2017 Nov 6; 19(suppl_6):vi194-vi194.
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  17. Neumann KD, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Mutch CA, Flavell RR, Blecha JE, Kwak T, Sriram R, VanBrocklin HF, Rosenberg OS, Ohliger MA, Wilson DM. Imaging Active Infection in vivo Using D-Amino Acid Derived PET Radiotracers. Sci Rep. 2017 08 11; 7(1):7903.
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  18. Ilwoo Park, Adam Elkhaled, Xiaodong Yang, Yuying Zhai, Renuka Sriram, Dave Korenchan, John Kurhanewicz, Adam Cunha, I-Chow Hsu, Sarah Nelson, Sabine Mueller. DIPG-16. NONINVASIVE ASSESSMENT OF TREATMENT RESPONSE FOR DIFFUSE INTRINSIC PONTINE GLIOMA USING HYPERPOLARIZED 13C METABOLIC IMAGING. Neuro-Oncology. 2017 Jun 1; 19(suppl_4):iv8-iv8.
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  19. Chen HY, Larson PEZ, Bok RA, von Morze C, Sriram R, Delos Santos R, Delos Santos J, Gordon JW, Bahrami N, Ferrone M, Kurhanewicz J, Vigneron DB. Assessing Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness with Hyperpolarized Dual-Agent 3D Dynamic Imaging of Metabolism and Perfusion. Cancer Res. 2017 06 15; 77(12):3207-3216.
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  20. Marco-Rius I, von Morze C, Sriram R, Cao P, Chang GY, Milshteyn E, Bok RA, Ohliger MA, Pearce D, Kurhanewicz J, Larson PE, Vigneron DB, Merritt M. Monitoring acute metabolic changes in the liver and kidneys induced by fructose and glucose using hyperpolarized [2-13 C]dihydroxyacetone. Magn Reson Med. 2017 01; 77(1):65-73.
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