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• Professor in the Department of Radiology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago since July 2002.

Background

• Employed in the Biosciences Division at Argonne National Laboratory for 15 years, most recently as Senior Molecular Biologist..

Activities

• Chairman, NASA's peer review radiation biology committee
• Member, NIH's radiation study section
• Member, National Academy of Science's Committee on Radiofrequency Radiation
• Will become course director of the "Epic of Creation" series at the University of Chicago in 2004.

Interests

• Studies of the molecular basis of radiation responses and on the development of approaches to imaging radiation-activated nanoparticles in mammalian cells, particularly using synchrotron X-ray sources.