Rachana Shah

Rachana Shah is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at USC's Keck School of Medicine, specializing in pediatric oncology and retinoblastoma research. Her work focuses on liquid biopsy techniques for retinoblastoma diagnosis and treatment monitoring, particularly using aqueous humor analysis for molecular profiling.

Dr. Shah's research advances non-invasive cancer diagnostics, with recent publications exploring aqueous humor as a biomarker source. She collaborates on multicenter studies investigating nucleic acid quantification in retinoblastoma and has contributed to establishing clinical testing standards for ocular cancers. Her work includes developing response criteria for intraocular retinoblastoma and investigating chromsome 6p amplification in advanced cases.