Radiobiology and Imaging Program (Abramson Cancer Center)

The Radiobiology and Imaging Program, one of the research programs supported by the Abramson Cancer Center, seeks to improve patient outcomes through the advanced understanding of how ionizing and non-ionizing radiation interacts with cancer and normal tissues. The programmatic goals are: (1) Study molecular mechanisms of radiation response and identify targets to improve radiotherapy. (2) Elucidate mechanisms underlying use of Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) and translate to the clinic. (3) Develop methods for measuring and altering tumor oxygenation and metabolic status and understand the molecular events governing cell death by IR and physiological stresses. (4) Develop novel techniques to image the interaction between radiation, PDT and tissues, and (5) Understand the biological effects of Protons to inform their effective clinical use.

Seminar Schedule 2020-2021

All seminars are at 12:00-1:00pm

Date	Speaker and Title
Thursday, 1/9/2020	Michael Soulen, MD Professor Department of Radiology “50 years of Embolotherapy for Neuroendocrine Tumors: Time to Evolve”
Thursday, 3/12/2020	Nick Lukens, MD Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology "Antibiotic Exposure Impacts Survival and Sever Colitis in Melanoma Patients Receiving Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors" Neil Taunk, MD, MS Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology "Imaging PARP1 in Prostate Cancer: Clinical Implications and Opportunities"
Thursday, 4/9/2020	Christos Davatzikos, PhD Wallace T. Miller, Sr. Professor Department of Radiology “Radiomics and Radiogenomics of glioblastoma: using machine learning to find imaging signatures of patient outcome and cancer mutations”
Thursday, 5/14/2020	Michael Farwell, MD Assistant Professor Department of Radiology “Imaging Immune Activation and Tracking Zr-89 Labeled Cells via PET” Mark Sellmyer, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Radiology "Tools to Observe and Control Gene and Cell Therapies"
Thursday, 6/11/2020	Terence Gade, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Radiology “Leveraging Cellular Dependencies to Enable Functional Molecular Imaging in Cancer”
Thursday, 11/19/2020	Mitchell D. Schnall, MD, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Radiology “Opportunities for multicenter studies in ECOG-ACRIN”
Thursday, 12/10/2020	Andrew Tsourkas, PhD Professor Department of Bioengineering “Engineering novel antibody and nanoparticle platforms for imaging and therapeutic applications.”
Thursday, 1/14/2021	Abigail Berman, MD, MSCE Assistant Professor Department of Radiation Oncology "Proton Reirradiation and Immunotherapy for Recurrent Lung Cancer" Chrissie Hill-Kayser, MD Associate Professor Department of Radiation Oncology “Development of Modern Radiation Treatment Paradigms for Abdominal Tumors of Early Childhood”
Thursday, 2/11/2021	Peter Gabriel, MD, MSE Associate Professor Clinical Radiation Oncology “Identifying Disparities in Cancer Incidence & Mortality in the ACC Catchment Area” Carmen Guerra, MD, MSCE, FACP Ruth C. and Raymond C. Perelman Associate Professor Department of Medicine “ACC’s Community Outreach and Engagement Strategies to Increase Accrual of Black Participants to Cancer Clinical Trials”
Thursday, 3/11/2021	Neil Taunk, MD, MS Assistant Professor Department of Radiation Oncology “PARP inhibition in Prostate Cancer: Imaging Biomarkers to Drive Rational Use of Therapy”
Thursday, 4/8/2021	Sunil Singhal, MD William Maul Measey Professor and Vice Chair Department of Surgery “Folate targeted intraoperative molecular imaging of lung adenocarcinoma" Jim Delikatny, PhD Research Professor Department of Radiology “Choline kinase targeted molecular imaging of lung cancer”
Thursday, 5/13/2021	Nick Lukens, MD Assistant Professor Department of Radiation Oncology “Combining Pembrolizumab and SBRT for Metastatic Melanoma Patients”

Radiobiology and Imaging Program (Abramson Cancer Center)

Seminar Schedule 2020-2021

Schedule from previous years