TRADONC Fellows

Physics:

Marcus Bennett, PhD
TRADONC Physics Post-Doc Fellow
Office Phone  336-713-6681
E-mail  mbennett@wakehealth.edu

BS Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
MA Physics, Clark University, Worcester, MA
PhD Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Interests: Applications of MRI for treatment planning, image guided radiotherapy, Gamma Knife radiosurgery

Clinical:

Actively Recruiting

Biology:

Dana Greene-Schloesser, PhD
TRADONC Biology Post-doc Fellow
Lab Phone  336-713-7629
E-mail  dgreenes@wakehealth.edu

BS Biology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
PhD Neuroscience, University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK

Interests: Therapeutics for the prevention of radiation-induced cognitive deficits. The mechanisms involved in proposed therapeutics used for neuroprotection of radiation-induced injury. The development, validation and use of animal models for radiation-induced cognitive impairment in humans.

Anne Sanders, PhD
TRADONC Biology Post-doc Fellow
Lab Phone 336-713-7626
E-mail  asanders@wakehealth.edu

BS Chemistry, University of Central Florida
PhD Molecular and Cellular Pathobiology, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston Salem, NC

Interests: Radiation and chemotherapy sensitizers.  Role of connexin43 in normal and tumor vasculature.  Generation of mouse models of cancer metastasis. 



Jeffrey Willey, PhD
TRADONC Biology Post-doc Fellow 
Beeper  336-806-7452
E-mail  jwilley@wakehealth.edu

BS Biological Sciences Pre Physical Therapy, Ohio University
MS Biological Sciences, Ohio University
PhD Bioengineering, Clemson University

Interests:  Radiation-induced damage to normal skeletal tissue.  Specifically, identifying cell-signaling pathways responsible for the acute activation of osteoclasts as an early response to radiation.

Maria Espinosa, PhD
TRADONC Biology Post-doc Fellow 
Lab Phone 336-716-0463
E-mail  mespinos@wakehealth.edu

BS Biology, Autonomous University, Madrid Spain
MS Biology, Biomedical Research Institute, Madrid Spain
PhD Biology, Biomedical Research Institute, Madrid Spain  

Interest:  Working on the effects of Angiotensin-(1-7) in different cancer types. This peptide classically involved in the blood pressure regulation has anti proliferative and anti angiogenic properties and has been shown to have a great impact in the treatment of different cancer types in animals and more recently in humans. After being exposed to Dr. Gallagher and Dr. Tallant's work, I became interested in it, shifting my research to the effects of Ang-(1-7) in the treatment of cancer. In particular I am interested in brain glioblastoma, a tumor with very poor prognosis. The standard care treatment for glioblastoma is surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therefore The TRADONC program for Radiation Oncology Research will allow me to learn about various aspects of cancer biology and treatment.

 

Jacquelyn Brown, PhD
TRADONC Biology Post-doc Fellow
Lab Phone 336-716-4678
E-mail  jacqbrow@wakehealth.edu

PhD Neuroscience, Washington University, St Louis 

Interests: How age and cancer treatment affect cognitive performance