Radiobiology and Imaging Program
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
- Christos Davatzikos, PhD
- E. James Delikatny, PhD
- Jay Dorsey, MD, PhD
- Andrea Facciabene, PhD
- Yi Fan, MD, PhD
- Michael Farwell, MD
- Steven Feigenberg, 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
- Kavindra Nath, PhD
- Peter Noel, MS, PhD
- Austin Pantel, MD
- John Plastaras, MD, PhD
- Ling Qin, PhD
- Rahim Rizi, PhD
- Mark Sellmyer, MD, PhD
- Sunil Singhal, MD
- Michael Soulen, MD
- Suleman Surti, PhD
- Shervin Tabrizi, MD
- Neil Taunk, MD, MS
- Boon-Keng (Kevin) Teo, PhD
- David Tischfield, MD, PhD
- Andrew Tsourkas, PhD
- Neha Vapiwala, MD
- Ioannis Verginadis, PhD, MSc
- Sergei Vinogradov, PhD
- Jeffrey Winkler, PhD c57
- Arjun Yodh, PhD
- Rong Zhou, PhD
- Timothy Zhu, PhD