Peter Corry, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor

Phone: 501-686-7281

E-mail: PCorry@uams.edu

Doctoral Degree

University of Texas, Houston, Texas, Biophysics

Board Certifications

Radiological Physics, The American Board of Radiology, American College of Radiology

Selected publications

Corry, P.M., Armour E.P. The Heat Shock Response: role in radiation biology and cancer therapy. Int J Hyperthermia Vol 21, No 8, 769-778, Dec 2005.

Corry, P.M., Dewhirst, M.W. Thermal Medicine, Heat shock proteins and cancer (a forward). Int J of Hyperthermia Vol 21, No 8, 675-677, Dec 2005.

Borrelli, M.J., Bernock, L., Landry, J., Spitz, D.R., Weber, L.A., Hickey, E., Freeman, M., Corry, P.M. Stress protection by a fluorescent HSP27 chimera that is independent of nuclear translocation or multimeric dissociation. Cell Stress & Chaperones 7(3):281-296, 2002.

Borrelli, M.J., Schoenherr, D.M., Wong, A., Bernock, L., and Corry, P.M. Heat-activated transgene expression from adenovirus vectors infected into human prostrate cancer cells. Cancer Res 61:11113-1121, 2001.

Corry, P.M., Armour, E.P., Gersten D., and Martinez, A. Hyperthermia and Brachytherapy. In: "Principles and Practice of Brachytherapy. Joslin, Hall, and Flynn (Eds.), Chapter 30, 400-409, 2001.

Lee, Y.J., Galoforo, S.S., Battle, P., Lee, H., Corry, P.M. Replicating adenoviral vectormediated transfer of a heat-inducible double suicide gene for gene therapy. Cancer Gene Therapy, Vol 8, No 6, 397-404, 2001.

Lee, Y.J., Galoforo, S.S., Sim, J.E., Ridnour, L.A., Choi, J., Forman, H.J., Corry, P.M., and Spitz, D.R. Dominant-Negative Jun N-terminal Protein Kinase(JNK-1) Inhibits Metabolic Oxidative Stress during Glucose Deprivation in a Human Breast Carcinoma Cell Line. Free Radical Biology & Medicine 28:575-585, 2000.

Huang, Q., Shan, S., Braun, R., Lanzen, J., Anyrhambatla, G., Kong, G., Borrelli, M.J., Corry, P.M., Dewhirst, M.W., Li, C.Y. Noninvasive Visualization of Tumors in Rodent Dorsal Skin Window Chambers. Nature Biotechnology, Vol 17, 1033-1035, October 1999.

Lee, Y.J. and Corry, P.M. Hypoxia-induced bFGF Gene Expression is Mediated Through the JNK Signal Transduction Pathway. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 202:1-8, 1999.

Blackburn, R.V., Galaforo, S.S., Corry, P.M., Lee, Y.J. Adenoviral Transduction of a Cytosine Deaminase/Thymidine Kinase Fusion Gene into Prostate Carcinoma Cells Enhances Prodrug and Radiation Sensitivity. Int J Cancer 82:293-297, 1999.