Ali Nabavizadeh, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Active Radiologist, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Active Radiologist , Chester County Hospital
Active Radiologist , Pennsylvania Hospital
Attending Radiologist, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Radiology
Contact information
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department of Radiology
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Department of Radiology
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Publications
Education:
MD (School of Medicine)
Shiraz Medical School, 2002.
Permanent linkMD (School of Medicine)
Shiraz Medical School, 2002.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Dr. Nabavizadeh is primarily an adult neuroradiologist with additional training in pediatric neuroradiology and nuclear radiology. He specializes in using neuroimaging to diagnose various diseases of the central nervous system.Description of Research Expertise
Dr. Nabavizadeh is an Associate Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with a research appointment at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the imaging lead of two consortia, CBTN (The Children’s Brain Tumor Network) dedicated to biospecimen-driven data generation. Dr. Nabavizadeh’s research focuses on multimodality imaging using structural and physiologic MRI imaging with additional PET probes and molecular imaging techniques to better understand the complex nature of brain tumor microenvironment. Dr. Nabavizadeh is the associate editor for the brain tumor section at the American Journal of Neuroradiology and has more than 140 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications, JAMA Neurology, Clinical Cancer Research, Neuro-Oncology, Radiology, and Journal of Nuclear Medicine. He has served as the principal investigator of multiple prospective imaging trials including investigator-initiated trials and industry-sponsored FDA registry trials.Selected Publications
Ivanidze J, Vu KV, Fu R, Brandmaier A, Szidonya L, Choudhary G, Starkey J, Wang TJ, Sisti M, McKhann LG, Puri S, Konner M, Roytman M, Lin E, Kuhn A, Osborne JR, Stieg PE, Beal K, Ramakrishna RR, Singh G, Lignelli-Dipple A, Doubrovin M, Vo AH, Welch M, Iwamoto F, Haggiagi A, Donovan L, Diaz M, Gill B, Liechty B, Pisapia DJ, Walker J, Magge RS, Wood M, Corzo VM, Sanusi OR, Raslan A, Dogan A, Bowden S, Nehmeh SA, Nickerson J, Mallak N, Ruiz A, Ambady P, Nabavizadeh A, Barajas RF Jr.: Clinical Utility of [F18]-Fluciclovine PET/MRI for Differentiating True Progression from Treatment-Related Changes in Patients with Glioblastoma. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol Dec 2025.Nabavizadeh A, Narsinh K, Kaufmann TJ, Liu H, Pouliopoulos AN, Prada F, Agarwal V, Ellingson BM, Sanvito F, Everson RG, Meng Y, Gandhi D, Chang SM, Wen PY, Ahluwalia MS, Sul N, Hadley L, Leblang S, Shah BR, Arvanitis CD, Burns TC, Moosa S, Woodworth GF.: Focused Ultrasound in Brain Tumors: Mechanisms, Imaging Guidance, and Emerging Clinical Applications. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol Dec 2025.
Jung G, Liang Z, Jain P, Deutsch HM, Li F, Rathi KS, Sun Z, Chen X, Straka J, Kazerooni AF, Sun Y, Koptyra MP, Sanchez-Maldonado S, Familiar A, Waanders AJ, Nabavizadeh A, Huang X, Resnick AC, Song Y.: Role of repulsive guidance signaling and GPR180 in pediatric low-grade glioma infiltration. NPJ Precis Oncol 9(1): 344, Nov 2025.
Yu B, Kline C, Hoare O, Jung J, Knowles T, Ranavaya A, Minturn J, Banerjee A, Leary S, Crotty E, Abdelbaki M, Whipple N, Goldman S, Margol A, Bhatia A, Dababo N, George E, Nabavizadeh A, Pampaloni MH, Inagaki A, Collins S, Chuntova P, Barcova M, Patel TS, Phillips J, Prados M, Molinaro A, Gupta N, Raffel C, Cole K, Kasahara N, Diaz AA, Mueller S.: Measles oncolytic virus as an immunotherapy for recurrent/refractory pediatric medulloblastoma and atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor: results from PNOC005. Clin Cancer Res 31(16): 3463-3475, Aug 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-24-3721.
Bagley SJ, Desai AS, Fraietta JA, Silverbush D, Chafamo D, Freeburg NF, Gopikrishna GK, Rech AJ, Nabavizadeh A, Bagley LJ, Park J, Jarocha D, Martins R, Sarmiento N, Maloney E, Lledo L, Stein C, Marshall A, Leskowitz RM, Jadlowsky JK, Mackey S, Christensen S, Oner BS, Plesa G, Brennan A, Gonzalez V, Chen F, Barrett D, Colbourn R, Nasrallah MP, Mourelatos Z, Hwang WT, Alanio C, Siegel DL, June CH, Hexner EO, Binder ZA, O'Rourke DM.: Intracerebroventricular bivalent CAR T cells targeting EGFR epitope 806 and IL-13Rα2 in recurrent glioblastoma: a phase 1 dose finding study. Nature Medicine 31(8): 2778-2787, Aug 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1038/s41591-025-03745-0. Epub 2025 Jun 1.
Climent Pardo JC, Zapaishchykova A, Boyd A, Tak D, Zielke J, Mahootiha M, Ye Z, Vajapeyam S, Jones J, Smith C, Familiar AM, Nabavizadeh A, Bandopadhayay P, Mueller S, Aerts HJWL, Haas-Kogan DA, Michor F, Ligon KL, Poussaint TY, Faghihroohi S, Kann BH.: Deep learning volumetrics reveal distinct clinical trajectories for pediatric low-grade gliomas under surveillance: A multicenter study. Neurooncol Adv 7(1): vdaf145, Jul 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1093/noajnl/vdaf145.
Familiar AM, Khalili N, Khalili N, Schuman C, Grove E, Viswanathan K, Seidlitz J, Alexander-Bloch A, Zapaishchykova A, Kann BH, Vossough A, Storm PB, Resnick AC, Kazerooni AF, Nabavizadeh A.: Empowering Data Sharing in Neuroscience: A Deep Learning Deidentification Method for Pediatric Brain MRIs AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 46(5): 964-972, May 2025 Notes: doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A8581.
Divyanshu Tak , Biniam A. Garomsa , Anna Zapaishchykova , Zezhong Ye , Sridhar Vajapeyam , Maryam Mahootiha , Juan Carlos Climent Pardo ,Ceilidh Smith , Ariana M. Familiar , Tafadzwa Chaunzwa , Kevin X. Liu , Sanjay Prabhu , Pratiti Bandopadhayay , Ali Nabavizadeh , Sabine Mueller , Hugo J. W. L. Aerts , Daphne Haas-Kogan , Tina Y. Poussaint , Benjamin H. Kann.: Longitudinal Risk Prediction for Pediatric Glioma with Temporal Deep Learning. NEJM AI 2(5), May 2025.
Till JE, Seewald NJ, Yazdani Z, Wang Z, Ballinger D, Samberg H, Dandu S, Macia C, Yin M, Abdalla A, Prior T, Shah S, Patel T, McCoy E, Mansour M, Wills CA, Bochenek V, Serrano J, Snuderl M, Phillips RE, O'Rourke DM, Amankulor NM, Nabavizadeh A, Desai AS, Gollomp K, Binder ZA, Zhou W, Bagley SJ, Carpenter EL.: Corticosteroid-dependent association between prognostic peripheral blood cell-free DNA levels and neutrophil-mediated NETosis in patients with glioblastoma. Clin Cancer Res 31(7): 1292-1304, Apr 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-24-3169.
Kraya A, Rathi K, Jin R, Kesherwani V, Resnick AC, Storm PB, Nabavizadeh A.: Evaluating the Potential of PSMA Targeting in CNS Tumors: Insights from Large-Scale Transcriptome Profiling. Cancers 6(17 (7)), Apr 2025.