Rada Savic

Rada Savic is a Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), with a focus on computational pharmacology and precision medicine. She serves as Codirector of the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics Graduate Program (PSPG) and is affiliated with the Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI).

• PhD, Pharmacometrics, Uppsala University (2008)
• MS, Biomedical Sciences, Uppsala University (2004)
• BSc, Pharmacy, University of Belgrade (2003)

Her research integrates computational methods to study drug-disease interactions across molecular to whole-body scales, particularly in tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, and pediatric pharmacology. Key areas include pharmacometrics, systems pharmacology, precision dosing, and translational modeling.

Recent work examines drug penetration in tuberculosis lesions, regimen optimization for drug-resistant infections, and pregnancy-related pharmacodynamic models for malaria. She has published extensively in journals like Nature Communications, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

• Leon I. Goldberg Early Investigator Award (2021)
• UCSF KL2 Career Award (2013)
• PhRMA Foundation Research Grant (2013)

She leads NIH-funded tuberculosis consortia and contributes to global health initiatives through malaria and HIV pharmacology studies. Her collaborations span institutions including University of Belgrade, Uppsala University, and CDC Tuberculosis Trials Consortium.