Peter O'Neill

Honorary Member 2016

Peter O’Neill has been a Member of the Association for Radiation Research since 1978, serving as Hon. Treasure (1986-90), Vice-Chairman (1994-96) and Chairman (1996-98). The Association honoured him with the award of the Weiss Medal in 2010, and Honorary Membership in 2016. Other honours include the award of the Failla Award and Lecture in 2014 from the Radiation Research Society. He has been involved in other Societies as Chemistry councillor (1998-01) and President of the Radiation Research Society (2010-11), as secretary Treasurer (1993-95) of LH Gray Trust and as treasurer (1989-95) and chairman (2005-09) of the Miller Trust for Radiation Chemistry. He was awarded his BSc (Leeds, UK) in Chemistry (1970), PhD, under the supervision of Dr Salmon and Lord Dainton (1974) and a D.Sc (1996) in recognition of his contributions to 'Free Radical Processes in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biology’. His formative years also involved post-doctoral periods at the Max Planck Institute in Mulheim, Germany (1974-77) and the Institute of Cancer Research, London (1977-1983). He was Head of the DNA Damage Group and is Deputy Director of the Oxford Institute of Radiation Oncology at the University of Oxford following his move in 2007 from the MRC Radiation and Genome Stability Unit, Harwell (1983-2007), where he held several senior positions. Peter O’Neill is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. More recently his major research interests have focussed on understanding the challenges that radiation-induced clustered DNA damage sites present to the repair pathways and as a consequence contribute to carcinogenesis at environmental radiation levels or to the killing of tumour cells. His research has resulted in about 235 peer reviewed papers. . He is a senior Editor of Radiation Research and the International Journal of Radiation Biology. In recent years he has served on numerous committees Radiation studies Section of NIH, CRUK projects committee, grants committee for US DoE, LSF facility Access committee for STFC, chair for NASA grants committee, EU committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks, and scientific advisory board for EU funded MELODI programme.

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