Kevin Prise

Weiss Medallist 2024

Kevin Prise has been Professor of Radiation Biology at the Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research at Queen’s University Belfast since 2007. Prior to this, he was Head of the Cell and Molecular Radiation Biology Group at the Gray Cancer Institute in Northwood, London. He received his PhD in Cell Biology and Biochemistry, from the University of Aberdeen, on the mechanisms of action of the chemotherapeutic methotrexate. He has developed wide-ranging interests in radiation biology including research on low dose radiation risk, radiation quality, drug-RT combinations including nanoparticles, cell and tissue signalling mechanisms. His recent work is developing new biological based models for optimising the temporal and spatial aspects of advanced radiotherapies. A current focus is on the radiobiology of new laser-based approaches to probe extreme ultra-high dose-rate regimes. He is a Past-President of the Radiation Research Society, a previous RRS Michael Fry award recipient and Friedrich Dessauer awardee of the German Radiation Research Societies. He was the 2018 Douglas Lea Lecturer, (Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine) and the 2018 Bacq and Alexander awardee from the European Radiation Research Society. He has supervised 54 PhD students and has published over 380 papers (h=68), with over 15,500 citations.

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