Krishna Kandarpa MD, PhD

Krishna Kandarpa, M.D., Ph.D., is a cardiovascular and interventional radiologist, who is Director of Research Sciences and Strategic Directions at NIBIB/NIH. Most recently, he was Chief Medical Officer/Chief Scientific Officer/EVP-R&D at Delcath Systems, Inc., New York, NY, which markets a combination device/drug treatment for cancers in the liver.

Prior to this, he was tenured Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Radiologist-in-Chief at the UMass Memorial Medical Center. Earlier, he was at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, where he was a Professor of Radiology and Chief of Service and Director of the Division of Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiology at The New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell), when he simultaneously held an adjunct professorship at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.