The Faculty

The Faculty and Their Research
Faculty with Joint Appointments
Affiliate Faculty

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The Faculty and Their Research

Joel S. Bedford, Professor; Ph.D. Oxford 1966. Cellular radiation biology; radiation genetics and cytogenetics.

Thomas B. Borak, Professor; Ph.D., Vanderbilt 1969. Radiation dosimetry; health physics; environmental and occupational radiation safety.

James S. Durham, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois 1987. Nuclear engineering; applied health physics.

Mortimer M. Elkind, Professor and University Distinguished Professor (Transitional); Ph.D. MIT 1953. Oncogenesis, radiobiology, radiotherapy, mammalian cell biology, biophysics.

Michael H. Fox, Professor and Chairman, Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Program; Ph.D. Kansas State 1977. Flow cytometry, hyperthermia, tumor cell kinetics, cell cycle, intracellular ion regulation; heat shock proteins, apoptosis.

Edward L. Gillette, Professor (Transitional); D.V.M., Kansas State; Ph.D., Colorado State 1965. Spontaneous animal tumors as models for human medicine; normal tissue response to irradiation alone and in combination with other modalities.

Shawki A. Ibrahim, Associate Professor; Ph.D., NYU 1980. Radiochemistry and environmental aspects of nuclear-waste management.

Susan L. Kraft, Associate Professor, D.V.M. 1985 Washington State University; PhD 1991 Washington State University. Radiology and magnetic resonance imaging, cancer imaging, radiation therapy of cancer.

Susan M. LaRue, Associate Professor; D.V.M., Georgia; Ph.D., Colorado State 1992. Treatment of spontaneously occurring canine tumors; prediction of tumor response to therapy via cellular assays; tumor heterogeneity.

Jack L. Lebel, Professor (Transitional); D.V.M., Montreal 1967. Diagnostic radiology, angiography, and research on the biological effects of plutonium.

John T. Lett, Professor; Ph.D., London 1960. DNA repair mechanisms; DNA structure in the mammalian chromosome; late effects of heavy ions; aging of the central nervous system.

Richard D. Park, Professor; Ph.D., Colorado State 1971. Diagnostic radiology and computerized tomography.

Ryuichi Okayasu Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Colorado State 1987. Radiation biology/Cancer biology: DNA damage and repair using mammalian cell systems. Cellular and molecular carcinogenesis. Radiation cytogenetics.

David J. Rowan, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. McGill University 1991. Radioecology; Fate of radionuclides and contaminants in aquatic ecosystems and the use of these substances as tracers of ecological processes.

Maria Leia Smith, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Northwestern University 1991. Molecular mechanisms of breast and ovarian carcinogenesis; transcription factors-coactivator interactions; cell cycle regulation.

Philip F. Steyn, Associate Professor; B.V.Sc., Pretoria 1980. Diagnostic radiology and computerized medicine.

Charles Waldren, Professor (Radiological Health Sciences); Ph.D. Colorado 1972. Somatic cell genetic, biochemical and molecular approaches to mammalian cell toxicology.

Robert L. Wells, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Colorado State 1982. Neoplastic transformation of cells in vitro by radiation and chemicals.

F. Ward Whicker, Professor and Chairman; Ph.D., Colorado State 1965. Radioecology; behavior of radioneuclides in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems; transport simulation models for radionuclides.

Robert H. Wrigley, Associate Professor; B.V.Sc., Sydney 1977, Veterinary radiology and imaging by ultrasound.

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Faculty with Joint Appointements

A. William Aldredge, Professor, Fishery and Wildlife Biology; Ph.D. Colorado State. Wildlife ecology; radioecology.

Stephen A. Benjamin, Professor, Pathology; D.V.M., Cornell. Radiation carcinogenesis; immunotoxicology; radiation pathology.

Thomas E. Hakonsen, Ph.D. Colorado State. Radioecology

Thomas B. Kirchner, Senior Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory; Ph.D., Colorado State. Ecological transport modeling.

Charles W. Miller, Professor, Physiology; Ph.D., Colorado State. Ultrasound; cardiology.

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Affiliate Faculty

E. Balbinder, Ph.D., Indiana. Genetics.

Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, Ph.D., California, San Diego. Radiation carcinogenesis.

Fairley J. Barnes, Ph.D., New Mexico State. Biology.

Ehud Ben-Hur, D.Sc., Technion (Israel). Cell and Molecular biology of damage/repair processes due to ionizing and nonionizing radiations; Cellular and molecular photobiology.

Eleanor A. Blakely, Ph.D., Illinois. Cellular radiation biology.

David D. Breshears, Ph.D. Colorado State. Radioecology

I. Lehr Brisbin Jr., Ph.D., Georgia. Zoology; radioecology.

Aloke Chatterjee, Ph.D., Indiana. Radiation Physics.

Jesse Cleveland Jr., Ph.D., Colorado. Plutonium chemisty.

Priscilla K. Cooper, Ph.D., Stanford. DNA repair.

Stanley B. Curtis, Ph.D., Washington (Seattle). Radiation physics.

William C. Dewey, Ph.D., Rochester. Mutation induction in somatic cells in culture; the combined effects of hyperthermia, radiation, and drugs on the survival, repair, and progress of cells through their life cycle.

Philip R. Fresques

Tom K. Hei, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve. Radiation mutagenesis.

Fredrick W. Hetzel, Ph.D., Waterloo. Photodynamic therapy for cancer.

Colin K. Hill, Ph.D., Brunel (England). Mechanisms of neoplastic transformation.

Thomas G. Hinton, Ph.D., Colorado State. Radioecology

Robert F. Holub, Ph.D., McGill. Radon measurements and charcterization of radioactive aerosols.

Jeanie J. Kinzie, M.E., St. Louis. Radiation oncology.

David C. Kocher, Ph.D., Wisconsin. Radiation protection.

Amy Kronenberg, Ph.D., Harvard. Radiation genetics.

Craig A. Little, Ph.D., Colorado State. Radioecology.

O. Doyle Markham, Ph.D., Colorado State. Ecology; radioecology.

Elaine A. Ostrander, Ph.D., Oregon Health Sciences University. Molecular genetics.

R. Gene Schreckhise, Ph.D., Colorado State. Radioecology.

Steven L. Simon, Ph.D., Colorado State. Radioecology.

Hiroshi Utsumi

Albert J. van der Kogel, Ph.D., Amsterdam. Radiation effects in normal tissues.

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