ERIC J. HALL, D.Phil., D.Sc., F.A.C.R., F.R.C.R.

     CRR Director

     Higgins Professor of Radiation Biophysics

     Professor of Radiology and Radiation Oncology

     Research Interests:

• Radiation induced carcinogenesis

• Effects of neutrons, alpha particles and HZE particles

• Health hazards of radon exposure

• Hazards of space radiations

• Low dose-rate radiobiology as it applies to brachytherapy

CHARLES R. GEARD, Ph.D.

     CRR Associate Director

     Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology

     Research Interests:

• Individual predictive assays

• Enhancers of radiation tumoricidal effects

• Radiation oncogenesis

DAVID J. BRENNER, Ph.D., D.Sc.

     RARAF Director

     Professor of Radiation Oncology and Public Health (Environmental Health Science)

     Chairman, Joint Radiation Safety Committee

     Chairman, Radioactive Drug Research Committee

     Research Interests:

• Biophysical modeling

• Radiation biology

• Risk estimation

• Radiotherapy

• Radon

TOM K. HEI, Ph.D.

     Professor of Radiation Oncology and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences

     Research Interests:

• Radiation and environmental carcinogenesis/mutagenesis

• Mechanism of asbestos toxicology

• Molecular mechanisms of radiation-induced bronchial and breast carcinogenesis

• Oxidative stress and DNA damage 

HOWARD B. LIEBERMAN, Ph.D.

     Professor of Radiation Oncology

     Research Interests:

• Understanding molecular aspects of radioresistance, chemoresistance and regulation of cell cycle progression in human and yeast cells

SALLY A. AMUNDSON, Sc.D.

     Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology

     Research Interests:

• Functional genomics of responses to ionizing radiation and other stressors

• Signal transduction in DNA-damage and stress responses

• Biological responses to low doses of ionizing radiation

• Molecular responses to high LET

• Development of gene expression biomarkers