Radhika R. Gudi

Radhika R. Gudi, PhD, serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology & Immunology at the College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), where her research examines cellular mechanisms underlying cancer development and inflammatory diseases.

Her core research domains include:

• Oral cancer cell biology and pathogenesis
• Chronic inflammation and its role in malignancies
• Endocytic vesicle transport and trafficking pathways
• Centrosome structure/function in tumor suppression
• Therapeutic targeting of vesicular transport for cancer prevention

Dr. Gudi's laboratory investigates canonical and non-canonical regulatory mechanisms governing vesicular trafficking, centriole duplication, and cell surface receptor homeostasis. Her work demonstrates how defects in these pathways drive tumor formation and chronic inflammation, with translational efforts focused on developing novel interventions to disrupt cancer progression through vesicular transport modulation.