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UCLA RADIATION ONCOLOGY JOURNAL
AWARDS, PUBLICATIONS,
AND GRANTS
Recent wins from the UCLA Department of Radiation Oncology
Nzhde Agazaryn, PhD, DABR, FAAPM
The Academic Senate's Committee on
Committees (ConC) has nominated
Dr. Nzhde Agazaryan to serve on the
Academic Senate's standing committee
of the Council on Academic Personnel,
ClinCAP.
Anusha Kalbasi, MD has four new
publications:
Spatial profiling reveals association
between WNT pathway activation and
T-cell exclusion in acquired resistance
of synovial sarcoma to NY-ESO-1
transgenic T-cell therapy. published
in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of
Cancer.
Retrospective analysis of adjuvant
treatment for localized, operable
uterine leiomyosarcoma, published
in Cancer Med. *Co-Corresponding
Author
Potentiating adoptive cell therapy using
synthetic IL-9 receptors, published in
Nature.
Engineered IL13 Variants Direct
Specificity of IL13Ra2-Targeted CAR T
Cell Therapy, to be published in PNAS.
competition for “Brachytherapy in
2030” Shark Tank Edition sponsored by
Varian in the American Brachytherapy
Society (ABS) 2022 Annual Meeting.
Amar Kishan, MD, received a KureIt
Foundation Grant to support his
radiorecurrent prostate cancer
research.
Drew Moghanaki, MD has received
a $50,000 Program Vision Leader
Award from the JCCC for his project,
“Understanding Barriers to Lung
Cancer Screening in an Academic
Healthcare System."
Amar Kishan, MD, secured a contract
with Point Biopharma to lead the first
trial of Lu177 PSMA + SBRT (the phase
II randomized LUNAR trial).
Ke Sheng, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, will be
receiving a new R01-Title: Precision breast radiotherapy
with the soft robot and supine CT
Abstract: In the proposed project, a
novel soft robot will be developed and
optimized to improve the individual
breast setup. A dedicated breast
Amar Kishan, MD has published a large patient
CT will be synergistically developed to
meta-analysis in European Urology.
provide the needed image guidance for
precision breast radiotherapy
Drew Moghanaki, MD has been invited Grant #1R01EB031577
as the Keynote Speaker at the ASCO
Dates: 9/1/2022-8/31/2026
Annual Meeting for a lecture entitled,
Total award: $2,142,325
“Mitigating Racial Disparities for
PI: Ke Sheng; Co-PI: Lihua Jin (UCLA
Veterans with Cancer through Equal
Mechanical Engineering); Co-I: Susan
Access Healthcare."
McCloskey
Sang-June Park, PhD, DABR and his
☐
team recently won 2nd Place in a
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