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Vania Kevanova, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Fellow

Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging
Dept. of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Office: A342A Crump Institute
Phone: (310) 267-2819
Fax: (310) 206-8975
vkenanova@mednet.ucla.edu

Education

Ph.D. Molecular and Cancer Biology
Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Cancer Center

B.S. Biotechnology and Chemistry
California State Polytechnic University Pomona

Awards and honors  
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Bristol Myer Squibb Young Investigator Award, 2005

Academy of Molecular Imaging Young Investigator Travel Award, 2005

Department of Defense (DOD) Breast Cancer Research Travel Award, 2004

DOD Training Program in Breast Cancer Research Fellowship, 2003 - 2004

UCLA, David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology Graduate Student Travel Award, 2003

   
Publications  

Kenanova, V., Olafsen, T., Williams, L.E. Ruel, N.H., Longmate, J., Yazaki, P.J., Shively, J.E., Colcher, D., Raubitschek, A.A., and Wu, A.M. Radioiodinated versus radiometal-labeled anti-carcinoembryonic antigen single-chain Fv-Fc antibody fragments: optimal pharmacokinetics for therapy. Cancer Res. 2007 Jan 15;67(2):718-26.

Olafsen, T., Kenanova, V.E., Wu, A.M. Tunable pharmacokinetics: modifying the in vivo half-life of antibodies by directed mutagenesis of the Fc fragment. Nat Protoc. 2006;1(4):2048-60.

Ferl, G.Z., Kenanova, V., Wu, A.M., DiStefano, J.J. 3rd A two-tiered physiologically based model for dually labeled single-chain Fv-Fc antibody fragments. Mol Cancer Ther. 2006 Jun;5(6):1550-8.

Kenanova, V., Wu, A.M. Tailoring antibodies for radionuclide delivery. Expert Opin Drug Deliv. 2006 Jan;3(1):53-70.

Olafsen, T., Kenanova, V., Sundaresan, G., Anderson, A.L., Crow, D., Yazaki, P.J., Li, L., Press, M.F., Gambhir, S.S., Williams, L.E., Wong, J.Y.C., Raubitschek, A.A., Shively, J.E. and Wu, A.M. Optimizing radiolabeled engineered anti-p185HER2 antibody fragments for in vivo imaging. Cancer Res. 2005 Jul 1;65(13):5907-16.

Kenanova, V., Olafsen, T., Crow, D., Sundaresan, G., Subbarayan, M., Carter, N., Ikle, D., Yazaki, P.J., Chatziioannou, A., Gambhir, S.S., Williams, L.E., Shively, J.E., Colcher, D., Raubitschek, A.A. and Wu, A.M. Tailoring the pharmacokinetics and positron emission tomography imaging properties of anti-carcinoembryonic antigen single-chain Fv-Fc antibody fragments. Cancer Res. 2005 Jan 15;65(2):622-31.

   
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