Cancer Science & Therapy

Vicente Notario

Vicente Notario, PhD
Professor
Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University, USA

Biography

Vicente Notario graduated with a B.Sc. degree from the University of Salamanca, Spain, in 1974, and received his Ph.D. in Biology from the same institution in 1977. After completing post-doctoral training in the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Cambridge, England, and the U.S. National Cancer Institute, he joined the Department of Biochemistry at the Georgetown University Medical Center (G.U.M.C.) as a Research Assistant Professor, in 1986. Currently, Dr. Notario is Professor in the Departments of Radiation Medicine and of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology. He is also Director of the Division of Radiation Research in the Department of Radiation Medicine. Dr. Notario has been Leader of the Radiation Biology & DNA Repair Program and the Molecular Targets & Therapeutic Resistance Program of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, at the G.U.M.C. For over twenty years. His laboratory has focused on understanding molecular and cellular mechanisms of cancer initiation and progression as well as those involved in the acquisition of resistance to anti-cancer therapy, with emphasis on pathways that may be exploited to improve the treatment of metastatic cancers and to sensitize human tumors to chemotherapeutic drugs and radiation therapies. Dr. Notario has authored more than 135 publications. The quality and clinical significance of Dr. Notario’s contributions have been recognized and, consequently, continuously funded by the U.S. National Cancer Institute since 1986. Dr. Notario has also received international recognition in the form of numerous invitations to speak at specialized meetings and to become a member of the Editorial Boards of journals such as Cancer Research, The International Journal of Oncology, Current Cancer Therapy Reviews, The Open Cancer Journal, The Journal of Cell Death, The World Journal of Clinical Oncology, and others. Dr. Notario’s expertise in Experimental Molecular Carcinogenesis has been recognized also through invitations to participate in U.S. and international scientific review and advisory committees, such as those for the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the American Association for Cancer Research, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Israel Science Foundation, the Italian National Center for Rare Diseases, the Italian Association for Research on Cancer, and the Department of Education and Science of Spain. In addition, Dr. Notario has been invited to act as an ad hoc expert reviewer for over 50 specialized U.S. national and international scientific journals. His service to Georgetown University included terms in the G.U.M.C. Research Committee and various faculty search committees, the Medical School Admissions Committee and the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Executive Committee, and is currently serving as Chairman of the Georgetown Institutional Biosafety Committee.

Research Interest

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Radiation Biology, Molecular Carcinogenesis and Tumor Biology.