Research groups
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Katherine Vallis
Professor of Experimental Radiotherapeutics
- Group Leader, Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology
- Honorary Consultant in Clinical Oncology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
Research Summary
Our research focus is on understanding and exploiting the biological effects of external beam ionizing radiation and therapeutic radionuclides in solid tumours (breast, lung, pancreas, oesophageal and colorectal cancers among others).
Biography
Katherine undertook specialist training in Clinical Oncology at the Hammersmith Hospital and doctoral research at Edinburgh University. In 1995 she was appointed as Staff Radiation Oncologist at the Princess Margaret Hospital and Scientist at the Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto. She returned to the UK in 2006 to join the Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology and established the Experimental Radiotherapeutics Group.
GROUP MEMBERS
Sarah Able, Laboratory Manager
Ole Tietz, Postdoctoral Researcher
Fernando Cortezon-Tamarit, Postdoctoral Researcher
Joao Lourenco, DPhil Student
Anis Theljani, Postdoctoral Researcher
Rachel Anderson, DPhil Student
Abirami Lakshminarayanan, Postdoctoral Researcher
Sreejesh Sreedharan, Postdoctoral Researcher
Recent publications
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Interactive Contouring Through Contextual Deep Learning
Journal article
Trimpl M. et al, (2021), Medical Physics
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Stereotactic Inverse Dose Planning After Yttrium-90 Selective Internal Radiation Therapy in Hepatocellular Cancer
Journal article
Abbott E. et al, (2021), Advances in Radiation Oncology, 6
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Photoactivatable prodrug for simultaneous release of mertansine and CO along with a BODIPY derivative as a luminescent marker in mitochondria: a proof of concept for NIR image-guided cancer therapy
Journal article
Tiwari R. et al, (2021), Chemical Science, 12, 2667 - 2673
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Proton vs photon: A model-based approach to patient selection for reduction of cardiac toxicity in locally advanced lung cancer.
Journal article
Teoh S. et al, (2020), Radiother Oncol, 152, 151 - 162
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An 111In-labelled bis-ruthenium(ii) dipyridophenazine theranostic complex: Mismatch DNA binding and selective radiotoxicity towards MMR-deficient cancer cells
Journal article
Gill MR. et al, (2020), Chemical Science, 11, 8936 - 8944