Amitava Mukherjee, PhD

Summary

As a faculty in the Department of Radiation Oncology, current focus of my research is to 1) Mitigation of radiation damage in the bone marrow or in the gastrointestinal system using small molecules, or second-generation probiotics that releases helpful cytokines. 2) Role of senescence in radiation induced lung fibrosis in surviving lung cancer patients, and how inhibition of a tyrosine kinase can be used as a therapy 3) Evaluating senescence in as an important factor in lung cancer and ovarian cancer.