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http://www.wfirm.orgAddress:A1 Bldg., Room 429Medical Center Blvd.Winston-Salem, NC 27157 USAPhone:
336-713-7279Keywords:
medical writing, editing, radiation, tissue engineering, regenerative medicineProjects:
Currently I write and edit manuscripts, grants, and all sorts of other things for members of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. If you are interested in my services as well, please contact me as I do take projects on a freelance basis as well.Interests:
My Ph.D. research focused on the response of normal brain tissue to radiation, and how to ameliorate side effects of radiation therapy for brain tumors. I discovered that TNF receptor 2 has a key role in how normal brain tissue responds to radiation, and that the loss of this receptor creates increased brain damage in mice after irradiation. Thus, it appears that even though TNF is much maligned as a pro-inflammatory cytokine, blocking it may actually be detrimental in inflammatory brain diseases. I've also done some work on DNA damage and other mediators of the radiation response. Now, as a writer at a world famous institute where growing organs in the laboratory actually happens on a daily basis, I've developed an interest in how inflammation may affect tissue engineering and regeneration.Heroes:
Marie CurieAwards:
1995 Honorable Mention, American Nuclear Society National Student Design Contest
1996 Elected to Membership in Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honor Society
1996 Non-resident Tuition Fellowship, Biomedical Physics Graduate Program, UCLA
1999 AACR/Bristol-Meyers Squibb Young Investigator Award,
American Association for Cancer Research
1999 Regents of U.C. Advancement to Candidacy Fellowship, UCLA
2000 Student Travel Award, Radiation Research Society
2000 AACR-AFLAC Scholar in Cancer Research Award, American Association for Cancer Research
2000 Marie Curie Award for Outstanding Young Investigator Of the Year, Radiation Research Society
2000 AACR/NCI Pathobiology of Cancer, Workshop Travel Grant
2000 Louis B. Silverman Memorial Award For Outstanding Graduate Research in Radiobiology
Health Physics Society—Southern California Chapter
2001 Travel Award, Radiation Research Society
2006 Travel Award, Radiation Research Society
Non-Scientific Interests:
Reading, writing short stories/other fiction, trying unusual foods, wine tasting/visiting wineries, yoga
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Daigle JL Hong JH Chiang CS McBride WH. 2001. The role of tumor necrosis factor signaling pathways in the response of murine brain to irradiation..Cancer Res.. 61:8859-65
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