Abigail Marshall, an MD-PhD student in Dr. Aaron McKenna’s lab at Dartmouth presented her work on the mapping ecDNA Dynamics in Glioblastoma at the 2025 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting. This exciting work is the first application of CRISPR lineage tracing to Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) and provides novel […]
Articles by: Pranav Prabhala
☄️ Key Findings on Skull Base Chordomas at ASTRO 2025
Myrsini Ioakeim-Ioannidou, MD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, presented important new findings at the 2025 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting. Her talk, “Long-term Failure Patterns and Prognostic Factors in a Randomized Dose-Escalation Trial for Skull Base Chordomas: A Secondary […]
🌍 New Geisel Enrichment Course Explores the Intersection of Climate & Health
As the realities of climate change increasingly impact patient care and healthcare systems worldwide, the Geisel School of Medicine is proud to offer a timely and innovative enrichment course this fall: “Climate & Health – Research, Action, and Impact.” Led by an interdisciplinary team of faculty sponsors — Dr. Katie […]
📘 New Publication: 125 Beams and the Rise of Radiation Therapy
We’re excited to share the release of 125 Beams and the Rise of Radiation Therapy: The People, Landmark Discoveries, and Innovations that Shaped a Field, now available on SpringerLink. This unique volume commemorates 125 years of radiation therapy, tracing its evolution through five 25-year chapters. Each section is authored by […]
Bruza Lab’s Work Selected as Medical Physics Editor’s Choice
Congratulations to Shiru Wang, and Yao Chen, whose recent publication was selected as an Editor’s Choice article in Medical Physics. Their paper, “Robust real-time segmentation of bio-morphological features in human Cherenkov imaging during radiotherapy via deep learning” highlights innovative work advancing the use of artificial intelligence to improve imaging during […]
Dr. Joseph Weygand Receives 2025 ARRO Global Health Faculty Award
The Department of Radiation Oncology is proud to announce that Dr. Joseph Weygand has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Global Health Faculty Award from the Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology (ARRO), part of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). The official notification letter commended Dr. […]
Dartmouth Radiation Oncology & Applied Sciences at ASTRO/SROA 2025
Faculty, trainees, and collaborators from Dartmouth’s Department of Radiation Oncology and Applied Sciences will be well represented at the 67th Annual ASTRO and SROA Meetings, September 27 – October 1, 2025, in San Francisco, CA. Members of the Department will be presenting plenary, oral, and poster sessions spanning topics in […]
Dr. Daniel Alexander Presents Cherenkov Imaging: Clinical Experience with DoseRT at AAPM 2025
Dartmouth Faculty Selected for National Leadership Roles in ASTRO
We are proud to share that several Dartmouth faculty members have been selected to serve on American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) committees for the 2025–2026 term. These appointments reflect both national recognition of their expertise and Dartmouth’s growing leadership in the field of radiation oncology. Our faculty will be […]
Contemporary radiotherapy: present and future
Abstract: Oncology care is increasingly a multidisciplinary endeavour, and radiation therapy continues to have a key role across the disease spectrum in nearly every cancer. However, the field of radiation oncology is still one of the most poorly understood of the cancer disciplines. In this Review, we attempt to summarise […]