New grants to allow bioengineer to look at how cell proteins act in repairing DNA

A UT Arlington bioengineering researcher has secured two new grants worth $1.13 million to track how cancerous cells damaged by radiation therapy work to repair themselves and apply that system to research focused on better cancer care. George Alexandrakis, an assistant professor of bioengineering, specializes in sub-cellular imaging and is collaborating on the project with David Chen, director of the Molecular Radiation Biology Division in Department of Radiation Oncology, at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. “Ultimately, we want to kill cancer cells more