Dynan Laboratory

Led by principal investigator William S. Dynan PhD, the Dynan Laboratory is located in the O. Wayne Rollins Center on the Emory University campus in Atlanta, Georgia.

Principal Investigator

William S. Dynan, PhD is a member of the Winship Cancer Institute and he is an Eminent Scholar of the Georgia Research Alliance. He holds a primary academic appointment in the Department of Radiation Oncology and a joint appointment in the Department of Biochemistry.

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Our Research

The goal of the Dynan laboratory is to obtain a better understanding of the biological effects of ionizing radiation and to apply this knowledge to help prevent and cure cancer.

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Publications

In 2012, Dr. Dynan received the Emory Millipub award in recognition of publications that had been cited more than 1000 times each. His h-index is 45.

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NAR Cancer

Dr. Dynan is the Editor-in-Chief of NAR Cancer, an Open Access journal published by Oxford University Press. NAR Cancer publishes original research and review articles at the intersection of the nucleic acids and cancer fields. Article categories include cancer computational biology; cancer genomics; DNA damage sensing and repair; gene regulation, chromatin, and epigenetics; cancer-specific RNAs and RNA processing; nucleic acid-based therapeutics; cancer data resources; Surveys and Summaries; and short reviews.

Publications (MyNCBI) Department of Radiation Oncology Department of Biochemistry Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University

Lab Team Announcements

NAR Cancer had a successful first year, with more than 100 submissions received since inception. As of January 2021, the journal will have five Associate Editors and a distinguished Editorial Board composed of more than 50 members from 13 countries.

Kishore Kumar Jella and Tahseen Nasti were co-first authors on a manuscript reporting that exosome-containing preparations from post irradiated mouse melanoma cells delay melanoma growth in vivo by a natural killer cell-dependent mechanism. The work appeared in International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics.

Zhentian Li and Kishore Kumar Jella were co-first authors on a paper presenting the first characterization of exosomes released following exposure of human cells to simulated galactic cosmic radiation. The work was published in Life Sciences in Space Research.

Dr. Dynan has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of NAR Cancer, a sister journal to Nucleic Acids Research. The journal launched on October 8, 2019 and is now accepting submissions.