Molecular Radiation Biology
Molecular Radiation Biology’s mission is to educate and train the next cadre of scientists and clinicians in the disciplines of radiation and cancer biology and to execute a multidisciplinary program of research focused on understanding the molecular, cellular, and organismal responses to ionizing radiation exposure for the betterment of humankind.
Specific areas of research include:
- The molecular mechanisms responsible for repairing DNA damage
- Molecular signaling after radiation exposure
- Radiation resistance and radiation sensitization
- Prognostic and predictive markers of therapeutic outcome
- Intrinsic radiosensitivity
- The biological response underlying ablative radiation therapy
- The role of hypoxia in radiation response
- The radiobiology of charged particle exposure for cancer therapy
- Combining immune therapy with radiation for cancer therapy
- Developing new cellular and animal models for radiation biology research
- The role of the inflammatory response after radiation
- Space radiation biology and mechanisms of HZE particle induced carcinogenesis