Biography
Dr. Tejaswi Worlikar is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Radiology Department at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her research interests involve development and investigation of therapeutic ultrasound, specifically histotripsy, for clinical applications such as cancer. Her previous work focused on histotripsy's impact on liver cancer progression, metastases, and the tumor immune microenvironment. Currently she is studying histotripsy doses for optimizing treatment outcomes, including anti-tumor immune response and abscopal effects. Dr. Worlikar earned a PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 2022 from U of M. Her dissertation was “Pre-Clinical Investigation of Histotripsy for Non-Invasive Ablation of Liver Cancer.”
Credentials
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2022
M.S.E., Electrical Engineering: Systems, University of Michigan, 2014
M.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2014
B.E., Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Mumbai, India