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Dr. Kerns

Sarah Kerns, Ph.D.

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Bio

Dr. Sarah L. Kerns is an Adjunct Associate Professor whose research focuses on cancer survivorship and precision oncology. Primary research projects aim to discover and characterize genetic and other host factors that predispose patients to development of adverse reactions to cancer therapy. The goals of this work are to identify novel targets for prevention of radiation side effects and to develop risk prediction models that could be used to personalize cancer treatment. Dr. Kerns holds a primary faculty appointment at The Medical College of Wisconsin and maintains several collaborative research projects with faculty members in the URMC Department of Radiation Oncology.

Grants

Completed

  • NIH/NCI K07 Career Development Award "Risk Prediction for Development of Adverse Effects Following Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer” (PI: Kerns)
  • NIH/NCI Clinical Loan Repayment Program Award 2020-2021

  • Wilmot Cancer Institute’s Research Development Funding Program “Elucidating the Role of the Renin-Angiotensin Pathway in Development of Hemorrhagic Radiation Cystitis” (PIs Kerns and Marples)

  • NIH SBIR Phase II Contract "Predictive Biomarkers of Adverse Reactions to Prostate Radiotherapy” (PIs: Peterson-Roth, Kerns, Rosenstein) 
  • DOD Prostate Cancer Research Program Award "Genetic Modeling of Radiation Injury in Prostate Cancer Patients Treated With Radiotherapy” (PIs: Rosenstein and Ostrer; UR site PI: Kerns)

Former Lab Members & Mentees

  • Mentor on 2T32CA102618-16 - University of Rochester Medical Center Clinical and Translational Cancer Control Research Training Program
  • Ashley Amidon, M.P.H. Health Project Coordinator 
  • Rebecca Fuchs, Computational Biology major (undergraduate student)
  • Michelle Hollenberg, Computational Biology major (undergraduate student)
  • John Kang, M.D., Ph.D. Holman Pathway Scholar (graduated 2020)
  • Sharon Lee, Public Health Sciences major, and Computational Biology minor (undergraduate student)
  • Omar El-Charif (medical student)

Collaborators at URMC