Karthik Ravi

Karthik Ravi, from West Bloomfield, Michigan, is pursuing an MD at Stanford School of Medicine. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan in three years with a bachelor’s degree in biology and business and earned an MPhil in medical sciences from the University of Cambridge in the U.K. Karthik aspires to contribute to a world where brain cancer is detected from routine blood, spinal fluid, or urine tests, leveraging the latest liquid biopsy technologies. At Michigan, he helped develop CNS-TAP, a drug-selection algorithm for pediatric neuro-oncologists, which has been adopted by national consortiums and is now under the management of UPenn’s Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Karthik also worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. His high school, undergraduate, and master’s degree work in the field of neuro-oncology, neurosurgery, and liquid biopsy has led to over a dozen publications. Karthik is a recipient of the Churchill scholarship and Goldwater scholarship.