Marianne Koritzinsky receives Michael Fry Award

This is an excerpt from the Radiation Research Society website

UTDRO's Dr. Marianne Koritzinsky is the recipient of the 2016 Michael Fry Award, presented by the Radiation Research Society. This award recognizes an early-career individual working in radiation research.

Marianne is an Assistant Professor at UTDRO and IMS and a Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. 

She holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (1996) and a PhD degree from the University of Oslo (2003). She completed postdoctoral training at Maastricht University in The Netherlands before moving to Canada in 2008. There she was appointed to faculty of the University of Toronto, and Scientific Associate at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, before being promoted to Scientist in 2014. 

Tumor hypoxia confers poor patient prognosis due to resistance to radiation and chemotherapy, and stimulation of a more aggressive phenotype. The aim of Dr. Koritzinsky’s research program is to increase our understanding of molecular and cellular responses to hypoxia, with the ultimate goal of targeting these responses to improve cancer treatment efficacy, mitigate cancer aggressiveness and improve patient outcomes. Research is focused on determining how cancer cells adapt metabolism and secretion capacity in hypoxia, and therapeutic strategies to reprogram tumor metabolism in order to increase response to radiation are being investigated.
Dr. Koritzinsky is a recipient of the ESTRO-Juliana Denekamp research award and a Terry Fox Research Institute New Investigator award. 

Congratulations to Marianne!