George Iliakis, Ph.D.

Professor and Director

Experimental Radiation Oncology

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 
 
 

EDUCATION 
 

University of Athens, Athens, Greece:  M. Sc. in Physics, 1975

University of Frankfurt, Main, West Germany: Ph. D. in Biophysics, 1978 
 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 
 

2001-present Vice President, Radiation Research Society, USA

1991-present Director, Division of Experimental Radiation Oncology, Department   of Radiation Therapy & Nuclear Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University   Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

1989-present  Professor, Department of Radiation Therapy & Nuclear Medicine, Thomas   Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, P A

1985-1989  Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Therapy & Nuclear Medicine,   Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

1985. Project Scientist in the Research Division, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

1978-1982 Research Associate at the "Gesellschaft für Strahlen- und Umweltforschung"   in Frankfurt/Main

1982-1983  Research Associate at the University of Frankfurt/Main 
 

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS (Selected from a total of 121) 
 

• Iliakis, G., and Okayasu, R. Radiosensitivity throughout the cell cycle and repair of potentially lethal damage and DNA double-strand breaks in an X-ray-sensitive CHO mutant. Int. J Radiat. Biol. 57: 1195-1211, 1990.
• Iliakis, G., Metzger, L., Denko, N., and Stamato, T.D. Detection of DNA double strand breaks in synchronous cultures of CHO cells by means of asymmetric field inversion gel electrophoresis. Int. J. Radiat. Biol. 59, 321-341, 1991.
• Iliakis, G.E., Cicilioni, O. and Metzger, L.  Measurement of DNA double strand breaks in CHO cells at various stages of the cell cycle using pulsed