Ananth Annapragada

Ananth Annapragada is Professor of Radiology and Director of Basic Research in the Edward B. Singleton Department of Pediatric Radiology at Texas Childrens Hospital. Previously, he was the Robert Graham Professor of Entrepreneurial Biomedical Informatics and Bioengineering at the School of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Texas, Health Sciences Center at Houston. He holds additional positions at the Keck Institute, The University of Houston, Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin. 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 2000, at the Cleveland State University and Cleveland Clinic Foundation. In 2003, he moved to UT. He moved to TCH in June 2011.