Radioactive Podcast

Today's podcast is hosted by Julie Costanzo, PhD and features Roger W. Howell, PhD and Jean-Pierre Puget, PhD as they discuss challenges in cancer treatment. This conversation was facilitated at the Radiation Research annual meeting 2018.

Ye Yuan, Physician/Scientist, currently working in the Radiation Oncology department at UCLA Medical Center discusses his career path and current research.

Walter Tinganelli is a highly qualified biotechnologist, with an outstanding academic history and international research experience at several major radiation biology research centers. John Earley interviews Dr. Tinganelli who discusses his career path and current research.

Carissa Ritner, Northwestern University, discusses her research on neuroblastoma, radiation resistance, miRNA.

Dr. Amrita Cheema, Departments of Oncology and Biochemistry; Co-Director: Waters Center of Innovation in Metabolomics, Georgetown University Medical Center, discusses her research.

Dr. Francis A. Cucinotta, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, discusses his 2018 Failla Award Lecture – "Adaciu Adaciu si fa Gran Viaggiu: With a Heavy Ion Accelerator you can Travel to Mars."

Dr. Katherine L. Morel, currently working at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses her Radiation Research Editors’ Award article. “Parthenolide Selectively Sensitizes Prostate Tumor Tissue to Radiotherapy while Protecting Healthy Tissues In Vivo” Radiat Res187, 501-12 (2017). https://bioone.org/journals/radiation-research/volume-187/issue-5/RR14710.1/Parthenolide-Selectively-Sensitizes-Prostate-Tumor-Tissue-to-Radiotherapy-while-Protecting/10.1667/RR14710.1.short  

Dr. Pierre Montay-Gruel is one of the pioneers studying FLASH radiation. He began his work at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland in Dr. Marie-Catherine Vozenin's lab. There, he studied FLASH effects on the brain and glioblastoma in mice. He is now expanding his research at the University of California- Irvine with Dr. Charles Limoli.

Additional links featured in this podcast: NIAID: “Concepts: Potential Opportunities”: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/grants-contracts/potential-opportunities  NIH Videocast: https://videocast.nih.gov/  NIAID - subscribe to receive emails: https://service.govdelivery.com/accounts/USNIAID/subscriber/qualify  NIH - Radiation Research program:  https://rrp.cancer.gov/default.htm  NIH SBIR and STTR Programs: https://sbir.nih.gov/  NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System: https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/  NIAID Contracts Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) & resources: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/contracts-sops-resources  NASA Human Research Program: https://www.nasa.gov/hrp  

FLASH: Charles Limoli, PhD and Marie-Catherine Vozenin, PhD, are interviewed on the surprising effects, how the idea came to fruition and the future of the therapy.

Allyson Koyen, BS, Cancer Biology Graduate Program, Emory University, working in David S. Yu, MD/PhD, Laboratory, discusses her current work.

Steven McMahon, PhD, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, discusses his current work.

Claire Isabelle Vanpouille-Box, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine, Radiation Oncology Department, New York, NY, discusses her current work.

M. Waleed Gaber, PhD, from the Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine discusses the topic of mentorship in science.

Claire Rodriguez-Lafrasse from Lyon-Sud Medical School, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Radiobiology discusses her current work.

Dr. Leon Sanche from the University of Sherbrook, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology discusses his current work.

Dr. Julie Constanzo from Institut de Recherches en Cancérologie de Montpellier discusses her current work.

Dr. Jan Schuemann from Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses his current work.

  Dr. Nils-Petter Rudqvist from Weill Cornell Medicine. His research project is focused on investigating the mechanisms whereby radiation therapy can convert a tumor into an in situ individualized vaccine. In particular, Dr. Rudqvist is leveraging his multidisciplinary background to determine to which extent radiation effectively exposes the tumor neoantigen reservoir to the immune system.

 A conversation with Thomas Berger from German Aerospace Center (DLR) | Institute of Aerospace Medicine. Dr. Berger leads the Biophysics group that is conducting an investigation of the radiation environment in civil airflight altitudes, in low-earth orbits, during interplanetary cruise and on planetary surfaces.