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VROC Investigators

Leadership

Dr. Robert Timmerman

Robert Timmerman, M.D.

Research interests:

  • Effect of SAbR on immune function and immunotherapy
  • Hypofractionated radiation therapy
  • Radiation response modifiers
  • Stereotactic body radiation therapy
 
Dr. Ashish Ranjan

Ashish Ranjan, Ph.D., B.V.Sc.

Research interests:

  • Intratumoral immunotherapy with nanoparticles
  • Treating veterinary cancers with drug plus device combinations
  • Focused ultrasound mediated nanotherapy

Visit the Nanoimmune Therapeutics Lab

Investigators

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Todd Aguilera, M.D., Ph.D.

Research interests:

  • Understand factors that influence immune heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment
  • Investigate mechanisms of immune privilege that can enhance immunotherapy efficacy
  • Explore tolerogenic and immunogenic mechanisms activated by radiation

Visit the Aguilera Lab

 

Dr. Prasanna Alluri

Prasanna Alluri, M.D., Ph.D.

Research interests:

  • Molecular mechanisms of endocrine therapy- and CDK 4/6 inhibitor-resistance in breast cancer
  • Targeting epigenetic pathways to overcome treatment resistance in breast cancer
  • New therapeutic approaches to mitigate radiation-induced heart disease

Visit the Alluri Lab

 

Dr. Anthony Davis

Anthony Davis, Ph.D.

Research interests:

  • Cellular response to DNA damage
  • The role of aberrant DNA repair and signaling in cancer etiology
  • The role of the DNA-PK complex in repairing DNA damage

Visit the Davis Lab

 

Dr. Jie Deng

Jie Deng, Ph.D.

Research interests:

  • Adaptive radiotherapy
  • Artificial intelligence in modern radiation therapy
  • Functional oncological MRI
  • MRI-guided radiation therapy

 

Dr. Raquibul Hannan

Raquibul Hannan, M.D., Ph.D.

Research interests:

  • Innate and adaptive immune responses generated by tumor irradiation with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SAbR)
  • Investigate strategies to combine immunotherapy with SAbR (i-SAbR) for cancer treatment
  • Improve cancer patient treatment outcome through the design of i-SAbR clinical trials

Visit the Hannan Lab

 

Dr. Steve Jiang

Steve Jiang, Ph.D.

Research interests:

  • Artificial intelligence in medicine
  • GPU and cloud based automated treatment planning
  • On-line re-planning for adaptive radiotherapy

Visit the MAIA Lab

 

Dr. Hao Peng

Hao Peng, Ph.D.

Research interests:

  • Adaptive proton therapy
  • Artificial intelligence
  • FLASH
  • PET imaging
  • PULSAR

 

Dr. Arnold Pompos

Arnold Pompos, Ph.D.

Research interests:

  • Online adaptive radiation therapy
  • Hadron (particle) therapy
  • Biology-guided radiation therapy

 

Dr. Larry Pop

Laurentiu Pop, M.D.

Research interests:

  • Immunomodulatory effect of radiation therapy
  • Innate immunity DNA-sensing pathways
  • Monoclonal antibodies and immunoconjugates as cancer immunotherapy
  • Clinical research in oncology

 

Dr. Debabrata Saha

Debabrata Saha, Ph.D.

Research interests:

  • The role of DAB2IP in chromosome stability
  • Developing physiologically relevant tumor models that improve preclinical predictions and translational success
  • Developing drug delivery system using nanoparticles

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Dr. Andrew Wang

Andrew Wang, M.D.

Research interests:

  • Nanomedicine approaches to improve cancer treatment, including radiation therapy and immunotherapy
  • Development of novel cancer diagnostics and therapeutics using biomedical engineering approaches
  • Understand cancer metastasis biology by applying tissue engineering technologies
  • Development of novel therapeutic approaches to treat autoimmune diseases

 

Dr. Ken Kang-Hsin Wang

Ken Kang-Hsin Wang, Ph.D.

Research interests:

  • Biomedical optics
  • In vivo cell tracking
  • Optical tomography-guided radiation therapy
  • Ultra-high-dose rate irradiation

Visit the BIRTLab

 

Dr. Kenneth Westover

Kenneth Westover, M.D., Ph.D.

Research interests:

  • Structural biology of cancer-associated proteins
  • Drug development for cancer therapy
  • Biochemistry and chemical biology

Visit the Westover Lab