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10067
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Overview

Alexandros G. Georgakilas is affiliated with the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and biochemistry, with a significant focus on radiation effects and molecular biology.

The primary fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, subfields of focus comprise:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Oncology
  • Radiation

The scientist's work touches on various important topics, such as:

  • Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry
  • Effects of Radiation Exposure
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques
  • Spaceflight effects on biology
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • PARP inhibition in cancer therapy

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alexandros G. Georgakilas include:

  • Athanasia Pavlopoulou
  • Georgia I. Terzoudi
  • Ioanna Tremi
  • Zacharenia Nikitaki
  • Angeliki Gkikoudi

The researcher has published extensively in several key venues, including:

  • Cancers
  • Physica Medica
  • Applied Sciences
  • Preprints.org
  • Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

Selected recent papers by Alexandros G. Georgakilas cover a range of subjects related to radiation and its biological effects:

  • "Therapy-Induced Senescence: Opportunities to Improve Anticancer Therapy," 2021, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • "Low dose ionizing radiation effects on the immune system," 2020, Environment International
  • "Ionizing radiation-induced circulatory and metabolic diseases," 2020, Environment International
  • "Codon Usage and Phenotypic Divergences of SARS-CoV-2 Genes," 2020, Viruses
  • "Ionizing Radiation and Complex DNA Damage: Quantifying the Radiobiological Damage Using Monte Carlo Simulations," 2020, Cancers

Best Publications

  • Immune evasion in cancer: Mechanistic basis and therapeutic strategies

    Dass S. Vinay;Elizabeth P. Ryan;Graham Pawelec;Wamidh H. Talib

  • Role of oxidative stress and DNA damage in human carcinogenesis.

    Thomas B. Kryston;Anastassiya B. Georgiev;Polycarpos Pissis;Alexandros G. Georgakilas;Alexandros G. Georgakilas

  • Broad targeting of resistance to apoptosis in cancer.

    Ramzi M. Mohammad;Irfana Muqbil;Leroy Lowe;Clement Yedjou

  • Sustained proliferation in cancer: Mechanisms and novel therapeutic targets

    Mark A. Feitelson;Alla Arzumanyan;Rob J. Kulathinal;Stacy W. Blain

  • Oxidative stress, DNA methylation and carcinogenesis

    Rodrigo Franco;Rodrigo Franco;Onard Schoneveld;Alexandros G. Georgakilas;Mihalis I. Panayiotidis

  • Tissue invasion and metastasis: Molecular, biological and clinical perspectives.

    Wen Guo Jiang;Andrew James Sanders;M. Katoh;H. Ungefroren

  • FORMATION OF CLUSTERED DNA DAMAGE AFTER HIGH-LET IRRADIATION: A REVIEW

    Megumi Hada;Alexandros G. Georgakilas

  • Broad targeting of angiogenesis for cancer prevention and therapy

    Zongwei Wang;Charlotta Dabrosin;Xin Yin;Mark M. Fuster

  • The challenge of drug resistance in cancer treatment: a current overview.

    Michail Nikolaou;Athanasia Pavlopoulou;Alexandros G Georgakilas;Efthymios Kyrodimos

  • p21: A Two-Faced Genome Guardian

    Alexandros G. Georgakilas;Olga A. Martin;William M. Bonner

  • Role of oxidatively induced DNA lesions in human pathogenesis

    Olga A. Sedelnikova;Christophe E. Redon;Jennifer S. Dickey;Asako J. Nakamura

  • Cancer prevention and therapy through the modulation of the tumor microenvironment.

    Stephanie C. Casey;Amedeo Amedei;Katia Aquilano;Asfar S. Azmi

  • Designing a broad-spectrum integrative approach for cancer prevention and treatment

    Keith I. Block;Charlotte Gyllenhaal;Leroy Lowe;Amedeo Amedei

  • The role of reactive oxygen species and oxidative stress in environmental carcinogenesis and biomarker development.

    Dominique Ziech;Rodrigo Franco;Alexandros G. Georgakilas;Stavroula Georgakila

  • Induction and Repair of Clustered DNA Lesions: What Do We Know So Far?

    Alexandros G. Georgakilas;Peter O'Neill;Robert D. Stewart

  • Effects of Radiation Quality and Oxygen on Clustered DNA Lesions and Cell Death

    Robert D. Stewart;Victor K. Yu;Alexandros G. Georgakilas;Constantinos Koumenis

  • Therapy-induced senescence: opportunities to improve anti-cancer therapy

    Pataje G Prasanna;Deborah E Citrin;Jeffrey Hildesheim;Mansoor M Ahmed

  • Toxicity and adverse effects of Tamoxifen and other anti-estrogen drugs.

    Geniey Yang;Somaira Nowsheen;Khaled Aziz;Alexandros G. Georgakilas;Alexandros G. Georgakilas

  • Tumors induce complex DNA damage in distant proliferative tissues in vivo

    Christophe E. Redon;Jennifer S. Dickey;Asako J. Nakamura;Irina G. Kareva

  • Processing of bistranded abasic DNA clusters in γ-irradiated human hematopoietic cells

    Alexandros G. Georgakilas;Paula V. Bennett;David M. Wilson;Betsy M. Sutherland

Frequent Co-Authors

Vassilis G. Gorgoulis
Vassilis G. Gorgoulis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Amr Amin
Amr Amin University of Sharjah
Katia Aquilano
Katia Aquilano University of Rome Tor Vergata
Maria Rosa Ciriolo
Maria Rosa Ciriolo University of Rome Tor Vergata
Amedeo Amedei
Amedeo Amedei University of Florence
William M. Bonner
William M. Bonner National Institutes of Health
W. Nicol Keith
W. Nicol Keith University of Glasgow
Christophe E. Redon
Christophe E. Redon National Institutes of Health
Rodrigo Franco
Rodrigo Franco University of Nebraska–Lincoln
William G. Helferich
William G. Helferich University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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