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.