Tatjana Paunesku, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology
Research Program
Cancer-Focused Research
My research background includes work on molecular biology of nucleic acids, radiation biology and nanotechnology, and an interest in development of new techniques, approaches and instruments for studies in my scientific fields of choice. This includes the use of different imaging approaches (for a variety of sample formats evaluated at different resolution and with different instruments, from atomic force microscopy of nucleic acids and nanoparticles to whole animal magnetic resonance imaging). My expertise has the greatest depth in the field of hard x-ray fluorescence microscopy. I have conducted successful research in many different environments, adapting to the dictates of the available instruments and user support staff and managing to bring to completion projects that required development of previously nonexistent capacities. I have also been a key person in forging collaborations of large teams of scientists from different and diverse fields of natural sciences (biology, chemistry, physics), different areas of biology (from neurodegeneration to cancer biology to plant biology) and chemistry (from chelation chemistry to nanotechnology). Finally, I was the primary writer and co-investigators on many NIH funded grants, as well as several DoE and the current DoD grant.