Rob Griffin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

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E-mail: RJGriffin@uams.edu

Dr. Robert Griffin is an emerging leader in both established and developing in vivo and in vitro methods to study blood flow response, tissue oxygenation and cancer growth and metastasis in response to experimental therapeutics. In addition he has performed significant investigations on the biology of tumor and endothelial cells and the vascular response of cells and tissues to thermal and radiation therapy. The richness of his experience in tumor flow studies has been valuable in numerous studies in his lab and other collaborators laboratories related to tumor vascularity. Dr. Griffin’s expertise in blood flow and tumor physiology/tumor microenvironment is in the forefront of cancer biology with regard to drug delivery, cancer progression as well as resistance. These in vivo techniques are extremely difficult, but are in demand because of their direct functional predictability. Therefore, Dr. Griffin’s research and expertise is extremely helpful and in demand from numerous investigators at our institution and other institutions around the country and the world. He has led research projects and taught both graduate students and medical residents for over ten years in the field of radiation oncology/radiation biology and most recently has made strides to improve thermal and radiation therapy of solid tumors with both novel anti-angiogenic compounds and nanotherapeutics.