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| Meet the Staff
Michael Gough, PhD Title:
Clinical Research Assistant Professor
Department:
Radiation Medicine
Speciality:
Radiation Medicine
Undergraduate:
Bachelor of Sciences at The University of Aston, Birmingham, United Kingdom with a Combine Honours degree in Human Biology and Business Administration. This degree program incorporated a placement year at ICI Pharmaceuticals, Alderley Edge, United Kingdom constructing computer programs for analysis of High-Throughput Screens.
Postgraduate:
Masters degree in Immunology at The Medical School, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom. PhD in Tumor Immunology at ICRF Cancer Medicine Research Institute, St James’s University Hospital, The University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom. The specific area of research involved novel cytokines and renal cancer.
Postdoctoral:
Postdoctoral and subsequently Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Molecular Medicine Program, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA. The research projects applied advanced Gene Therapy techniques to manipulate the host immune response to tumors. Specific projects focused on controlling the manner of cell death during cytotoxic therapies to enhance immune priming, and controlling the immune cells infiltrating the tumor site to ensure effective immunotherapy of tumors.
Current Appointments:
Clinical Research Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, OHSU Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Basic Immunology Laboratory, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Robert W. Franz Cancer Center, Providence Portland, Medical Center.
Research Interests:
Therapies to modulate the tumor site to enhance immune control of cancer Requirements to initiate long-lasting, effective immune responses to tumor in tumor-bearing hosts.
Patents:
(2000) 'Gene expression by positive feedback activation of a cell type-specific promoter'. Vile RG, Gough MJ #09/721,391.
Publications:
See Michael Gough's publications ....>>
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