Program Leaders: Theresa Busch, PhD and Terence Gade, MD, PhD
The Radiobiology and Imaging Program seeks to advance the understanding of the interaction of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation with cancer and normal tissues. Scientific Aims are to:
- Develop and characterize agents to improve cancer therapy with radiation
- Investigate radiobiological or imaging methods of altering or interrogating the immune environment to improve therapeutic response
- Gain a deeper understanding of the tumor microenvironment (TME) and metabolism with the aim to leverage this understanding to improve therapeutic response
- Develop novel imaging to optimally guide cancer care
- Understand the biological effects of protons to optimize their clinical use and determine which patients will benefit most from proton beam therapy
The Program is led by Theresa Busch, PhD, Research Professor of Radiation Oncology, and Terence Gade MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology. Drs. Busch and Gade are NCI-funded researchers who bring their scientific vision to this Program, which is focused on basic and translational research and the development of investigator-initiated trials. Drs. Busch and Gade expanded the Program’s focus on imaging modalities and theranostics and further enhanced the integration and interplay between radiobiology and imaging. A major development has been the substantial expansion of both translational and clinical studies of proton therapy.
Radiobiology and Imaging Program Membership
- Michelle Alonso-Basanta, MD, PhD
- Edgar Ben-Josef, MD
- Jeffrey Bradley, MD, FACR, FASTRO
- Theresa Busch, PhD
- Keith Cengel, MD, PhD
- Sanjeev Chawla, PhD
- Crystal Conn, PhD
- Patricia Corby, DDS, MS
- Christos Davatzikos, PhD
- E. James Delikatny, PhD
- Jay Dorsey, MD, PhD
- Andrea Facciabene, PhD
- Yi Fan, MD, PhD
- Michael Farwell, MD
- Terence Gade, MD, PhD
- Christine Hill-Kayser, MD
- Gary Kao, MD, PhD
- Joel Karp, PhD
- Constantinos Koumenis, PhD
- Lin Li, PhD
- Alexander Lin, MD
- John Nicholas Lukens, MD
- Robert Mach, PhD
- James Metz, MD
- Suyash Mohan, MD
- Peter Noel, MS, PhD
- John Plastaras, MD, PhD
- Anitoliy Popov, PhD
- Daniel Pryma, MD
- Ling Qin, PhD
- Rahim Rizi, PhD
- Mark Rosen, MD, PhD
- Chandra (Sandy) Sehgal, PhD
- Mark Sellmyer, MD, PhD
- Sunil Singhal, MD
- Michael Soulen, MD
- Suleman Surti, PhD
- Neil Taunk, MD, MS
- Andrew Tsourkas, PhD
- Neha Vapiwala, MD
- Sergei Vinogradov, PhD
- Rodney Wiersma, PhD
- Jeffrey Winkler, PhD
- Rong Zhou, PhD
- Timothy Zhu, PhD