Soumen Roy
Cancer and Inflammation Program, NCI, NIH, USA
Biography
Roy is currently working in the field of cancer and gut microbiota at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH in the laboratory of Dr. Giorgio Trinchieri. His main focus is to investigate the role of gut microbiota in chemotherapeutic drug and radiation therapy induced local and systemic toxicity.
Prior joining the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Roy worked at the National Institutes on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) in the Laboratory of Dr. Lisa Cunningham, where he contributed to the development of a sound conditioning based co-therapy, which inhibits cisplatin and aminoglycoside mediated hearing loss in mice.
Roy received his doctorate degree under the supervision of Anneliese Schrott Fischer in the field of targeted nanomedicine and hearing from University of Innsbruck, Austria in 2011
Abstract
Abstract : Gut microbiota modulates cisplatin mediated systemic toxicity