GAINESVILLE, FL – At the 58th annual meeting of the American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) held September 25-28, 2016, Drs. Nancy and William Mendenhall were two of ten ASTRO members to be named ASTRO Fellows in the 10th anniversary year that the designation has been awarded. The designation honors…
Dr. Dietmar W. Siemann, a radiobiologist with the Department of Radiation Oncology, was awarded a $1.7 million grant by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health for his project titled, “Hypoxia: Impact on Src Signaling and…
Several faculty and residents from the Department of Radiation Oncology were published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics’s special issue on particle therapy. We are excited to have the following first authors contribute to the topic: Julie A. Bradley, MD, “Initial Report of a…
Dr. Walter G. O’Dell, from the Department of Radiation Oncology, and Dr. Julie Bradley, from the Department of Radiation Oncology and the University of Florida Health Proton Therapy Institute, were awarded a $1.4 million grant by the Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program for their project…
Dr. Paul Okunieff, Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology, was awarded a grant by the Florida Space Institute (FSI) for his project titled, “Measurement of Individual Carcinogenesis Risk after Solar or Cosmic Radiation Exposure.” The Florida Space Institute aims to support space research, development, and…
The University of Florida Health Proton Therapy Institute (UFHPTI) has announced plans for a $39 million expansion. The expansion will include system upgrades and plans to increase the number of cancer patients and types of cancer UFHPTI is able to treat. UFHPTI has signed several agreements with the following groups:…
The Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Florida is excited to learn that three of our faculty have been named “Top Cancer Doctors 2015” by Newsweek Health. Randal Henderson, M.D., for excellence in the treatment of gynecologic cancer, head and neck cancer, lung cancer and prostate cancer…
Dr. Julie Bradley, a member of the Department of Radiation Oncology based at the UF Proton Therapy Institute, was awarded a $50,000 grant by the Ocala Royal Dames for her study, “Prospective Pilot Study of Early Markers of Radiation-Induced Cardiac Injury in Patients with Left-Sided Breast Cancer Receiving Photon or…
Congratulations to Dr. Zhenhuan Zhang, a postdoctoral fellow in the Okunieff Lab, who was awarded the prestigious Scholar-in-Training (SIT) Travel Award for the Radiation Research Society (RRS). Dr. Zhang’s abstract was chosen from among almost 150 submitted abstracts. He will represent the department at the upcoming RRS annual meeting.
Dr. Nancy P. Mendenhall, medical director of the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, is proud to announce the launch of the International Journal of Particle Therapy (IJPT), the official journal of the Particle Therapy Cooperative Group, which is an international society of physicians, physicists, and dosimetrists interested in…
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