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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Michael Joiner Wayne state University Detroit, Michigan, USA

Michael Joiner MA, PhD, MRCR (Hon), is Head of Radiobiology at the Karmanos Cancer Institute and the Graduate Officer of the Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, where he teaches. He is also an internationally recognized radiobiologist and researcher who has spent more than 40 years investigating how clinical radiotherapy can be made more effective using both manipulations of the radiation delivery schedule and also by the addition of chemical or physical modifiers of effect. Dr Joiner is an expert particularly in quantifying radiation effects, the medical physics of radiation delivery and application of high-LET radiotherapy. He discovered low-dose hyper-radiosensitivity, a major factor determining the extent of DNA repair following radiotherapy exposure. Before joining Wayne State University in 2001, Joiner spent 22 years at the Gray Laboratory in the UK, where he headed Experimental Oncology. Prior to this, he received his Masters degree from Cambridge University and his PhD in 1980 from the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. In 1999 he was made an honorary member of the Royal College of Radiologists for his services to them in teaching and examination. Dr Joiner has been a proud member of ESTRO for over 30 years and has been teaching and directing, the international ESTRO basic clinical radiobiology course. He has published more than 160 NCBI-cited peer-reviewed articles and he is the lead editor of the textbook, “Basic Clinical Radiobiology”. Dr Joiner truly nurtures a passion for teaching: next September, he will be teaching for ESTRO for the 40 th time.

Michael Joiner

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