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 2018-2019 

All seminars are at 12:00-1:00pm 

Date Speaker and Title

Thursday, 9/13/2018

Ling Qin, PhD
Associate Professor 
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
“Bone injury after radiotherapy: mechanism and treatment”
Thursday, 10/11/2018

Rong Zhou, PhD
Research Associate Professor
Department of Radiology
"Probing glutamine metabolism in triple negative breast cancer by PET and MRI"

Thursday, 11/8/2018

Jeffery D. Winkler, PhD
Merriam Professor
Department of Chemistry
“Studies at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology”

Thursday, 3/14/2019

Yi Fan, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
"Anti-vascular therapy against cancer: a terrible or terrific idea?"

Thursday, 4/11/2019

Gary Kao, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology
and
Stephen Feigenberg, MD
Professor of Radiation Oncology
"The ABCs of CTCs for NSCLC Treated by SBRT: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?"

Thursday, 5/9/2019

Daniel Pryma, MD
Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine & Clinical Molecular Imaging
Department of Radiology
"PARP-1 as a target for radiopharmaceutical imaging and therapy"
Thursday, 10/10/2019 Sergei Vinogradov, PhD, MS
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
"Designing phosphorescent probes for analytes other than oxygen"
Thursday, 11/14/2019 Patricia Corby, DDS, MS
Associate Professor of Oral Medicine
Associate Dean of Translational Research, Penn Dental Medicine
"Oral Microbiome Crosstalk in Head and Neck Cancer Management"
Thursday, 12/12/20219

Joel Karp, PhD
Professor of Radiology
"Development and initial human imaging on the whole-body PennPET Explorer system"

Suleman Surti, PhD
Research Associate Professor of Radiology
"Development of dedicated breast PET-DBT [BPET-DBT] system"

Schedule from previous years