Douglas R Spitz

Professor of Radiation Oncology

Biography

Dr. Spitz is a well-established investigator whose laboratory has made many significant contributions to the field of oxidative stress in cancer biology and toxicology. His laboratory was the first to discover that chronic exposure of mammalian cells to O2•- and H2O2 was capable of inducing genomic instability and gene amplification that resulted in a large increase cellular resistance to oxidative stress associated with cancer therapy.