RadioBiology and Imaging Program (RBI) Retreat 2025

Welcome and Overview of the RBI Program
Katherine Nathanson, MD
Deputy Director, Abramson Cancer Center

Liver Directed Therapy for Neuroendocrine Tumors
Michael Soulen, MD
Department of Radiology

Proton FLASH Radiotherapy: From preclinical studies in mice and canines to human clinical trials
Costas Koumenis, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

Clinical Trials in Nuclear Medicine Imaging and Therapy
Michael Farwell, MD
Department of Radiology

Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Terence Gade, MD, PhD
Department of Radiology

Keynote Presentation:
Intercepting the Trajectory of Cancer: The Role of Advanced Molecular Imaging
Peter L. Choyke, MD, FACR
Chief, Molecular Imaging Branch of the National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health

Break and Poster Viewing

Photon-Counting CT: Unlocking New Opportunities in Diagnostic Imaging
Peter Noël, PhD
Department of Radiology

Intelligent Plans, Evolving Biology: AI-Driven Radiotherapy at the Interception Frontier
Rafe McBeth, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

Chemical Tools for Alpha Radiopharmaceutical Therapy: Investigating Questions in Radiobiology and Impact on Drug Development
Mark Sellmyer, MD, PhD
Department of Radiology

Translational Nanomaterials for Imaging and Radiotherapy
David Cormode, MD
Department of Radiology

Lunch and Poster Viewing

Rapid adaptive translation in response to therapy-induced stress in prostate cancer
Crystal Conn, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

Enhancing Outcomes in Medically Inoperable Early-Stage NSCLC with Gut-Targeted Antibiotics and Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy: Results from a Randomized Pilot Study
Andrea Facciabene, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

Targeting NIR Fluorescent Dyes for Intraoperative Lung Cancer Visualization
Jim Delikatny, PhD
Department of Radiology

Improving cardiac sparing in lung cancer with FLASH proton radiotherapy
Ioannis Verginadis, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

Break and Poster Viewing 

Distinct metabolic phenotype renders β-catenin mutant hepatocellular carcinoma susceptible to treatment-induced ischemia
Kelley Weinfurtner, MD
Department of Medicine

Dual-Tracer Multiparametric Imaging with a Long-Axial Field-of-View PET to Better Characterize Cancer
Austin Pantel, MD
Department of Radiology

Hyperpolarized Imaging of BCAT1 for Targeted Hepatocellular Carcinoma Therapy
David Tischfield, MD, PhD
Department of Radiology

FLASH Radiotherapy and an Injectable Drug Delivery Hydrogel as a Combination Treatment for Glioblastoma
Kathleen Villasenor
Department of Bioengineering

Radiation-Induced Neoantigens as Targets for AND-Gate CAR T-Cell Therapy in PDAC
Nektarios Kostopoulos, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

Chronic Radiation Toxicities Are Attenuated Following Fractionated Proton FLASH Radiotherapy
Anastasia Velalopoulou, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

Flash proton re-irradiation with hypofractionation mitigates radiation-induced toxicity of the head and neck tissues in mice
Priyanka Chowdhury, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology
 

An Analytical Physics-Guided Standardization Approach for Radiomics Analysis in CT
Huay Din
Department of Bioengineering 

Closing Remarks

Jessica Im; Department of Radiology

Dual-contrast Imaging of Gadolinium and Iodine using K-edge Imaging in PCCT
Martin Rybertt; Department of Radiology 

Targeting STAT3 Remodels the Tumor Microenvironment and Enhances Radiotherapy Response in Pancreatic Cancer
Ioannis Paraskevaidis; Department of Radiation Oncology

Unraveling Disease Heterogeneity: Generative Adversarial Network based Normative Modeling
Spandana Chintapalli; Department of Radiology

Development of FLASH-CAR radioimmunotherapy for pediatric brain tumor
MD Naushaud Akhtar, PhD; Department of Radiation Oncology

Heme Oxygenase Inducers with Anti-PD1 Antibody for Tumor Control of Murine Pleural Mesothelioma
Lyna Dinh; Department of Radiation Oncology

Targeted Administration of Lactate Dehydrogenase Inhibitor during Transarterial Embolization of Target Hepatocellular Carcinomas in a Rat Model
Ryan Baron; Department of Radiology

Response Assesment to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Recurrent Glioblastomas using Multiparametric MRI based Prediction Model
Sanjeev Chawla, PhD, DABMP; Department of Radiology

A Genetically Encoded Hyperpolarized MRI Reporter for in Vivo Cell Tracking 
Molly Sheehan, PhD; Department of Radiology

Strategies for Improving Complete Tumor Resection in Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM)
Jennifer Ferd; Department of Bioengineering

Longitudinal Imaging and Funcitonal Characterization of Liver Regeneration and Humanization in a Translational SRG Rat Model
Yohan Kim, Department of Radiology

Metabolic imaging differentiates ischemia reperfusion injury severity in a translational mouse model
Shurik "Alexander" Zavriyev, Department of Radiology