Molecular Radiation Biology’s mission is to educate and train the next cadre of scientists and clinicians in the disciplines of radiation and cancer biology and to execute a multidisciplinary program of research focused on understanding the molecular, cellular, and organismal responses to ionizing radiation exposure for the betterment of humankind.

Specific areas of research include:

• The molecular mechanisms responsible for repairing DNA damage
• Molecular signaling after radiation exposure
• Radiation resistance and radiation sensitization
• Prognostic and predictive markers of therapeutic outcome
• Intrinsic radiosensitivity
• The biological response underlying ablative radiation therapy
• The role of hypoxia in radiation response
• The radiobiology of charged particle exposure for cancer therapy
• Combining immune therapy with radiation for cancer therapy
• Developing new cellular and animal models for radiation biology research
• The role of the inflammatory response after radiation
• Space radiation biology and mechanisms of HZE particle induced carcinogenesis