Heather Himburg, PhD
Professor, Radiation Oncology
Locations
- Radiation Oncology
Contact Information
Education
MS, Biomedical Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2001
BS, Physics, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1998
Biography
Training
Postdoctoral Fellow, Medicine, Cellular Therapy, Duke University, Durham, NC
Research Interests
Mitigation of hematopoietic acute radiation toxicity, role of the bone marrow microenvironment in regulating normal and malignant hematopoiesis, cancer stem cell biology
Publications
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Tumoral Skin Invasion Is an Independent Predictor of Rapid Recurrence in Head and Neck Cancer.
(Memon AA, Khalil M, Espinosa OV, Said I, Yang E, Adams JA, Friedland DR, Khani M, Luo J, Kuehn R, Frei A, Foeckler J, Akakpo K, Massey B, Stadler M, Wong S, Himburg HA, Awan MJ, Bruening J, Zenga J.) Head Neck. 2026 Feb;48(2):535-542 PMID: 41054923 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105018525815 10/07/2025
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Activation of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 Mitigates Gastrointestinal Acute Radiation Syndrome.
(Sharma GP, Nissen A, Gasperetti T, Foeckler J, Frei AC, Kuehn R, Gerhartz M, Heinzelman P, Romero PA, Zenga J, Himburg HA.) Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2026 Feb 01;124(2):488-503 PMID: 40967372 PMCID: PMC12797870 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105019379840 09/19/2025
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(Bonate R, Awan M, Himburg H, Wong S, Shukla M, Zenga J, Paulson ES.) Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology. January 2026;56 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105019339875 01/01/2026
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(Said I, Awan MJ, Wong SJ, Memon AA, Kearl T, Hematti P, Massey B, Bruening J, Akakpo K, Zenga J, Himburg HA.) Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2026 Jan 01;124(1):190-193 PMID: 41391923 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105024206020 12/15/2025
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(Memon AA, Awan MJ, Espinosa OV, Kuehn R, Frei A, Foeckler J, Bruening J, Akakpo K, Massey B, Stadler M, Wong S, Himburg HA, Zenga J.) JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2025 Dec 01;151(12):1196-1207 PMID: 41129177 PMCID: PMC12550742 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105022204542 10/23/2025
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Advances in noninvasive imaging for detecting radiation-induced lung injury (RILI).
(Nissen A, Audi SH, Clough AV, Fish B, Joshi A, Medhora M, Sidabras JW, Himburg HA.) Int J Radiat Biol. 2025 Jul 15:1-13 PMID: 40663440 PMCID: PMC12344586 07/15/2025
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(Zenga J, Awan MJ, Frei A, Foeckler J, Kuehn R, Kasprzak J, Massey B, Bruening J, Akakpo K, Shukla M, Wong SJ, Mathison AJ, Wendt Andrae J, Hunt B, Puzyrenko A, Jin VX, Memon AA, Villarreal Espinosa O, Chen F, Shaheduzzaman M, Kearl T, Hematti P, Himburg HA.) Nat Commun. 2025 Jul 01;16(1):5660 PMID: 40593620 PMCID: PMC12219838 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105009625716 07/02/2025
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Locked Dimerized CXCL12 Exerts Radiosensitizing Effects in Head and Neck Cancer.
(Espinosa OV, Awan M, Memon AA, Frei A, Foeckler J, Kuehn R, Bruening J, Massey B, Wong S, Shukla M, Kasprzak J, Joshi A, Dwinell MB, Himburg HA, Zenga J.) Head Neck. 2025 May;47(5):1379-1391 PMID: 39722591 PMCID: PMC12040585 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85212965471 12/26/2024
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Radiation-Induced Cardiotoxicity in Hypertensive Salt-Sensitive Rats: A Feasibility Study
(An D, Kriegel A, Kumar S, Himburg H, Fish B, Klawikowski S, Rowe D, Lenarczyk M, Baker J, Ibrahim ES.) Life. June 2025;15(6) SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105009049617 06/01/2025
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(Bonate R, Awan MJ, Himburg HA, Wong S, Shukla M, Tarima S, Zenga J, Paulson ES.) Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol. 2025 Jan;33:100693 PMID: 39877149 PMCID: PMC11772986 01/29/2025
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(Bonate R, Awan MJ, Himburg HA, Wong S, Shukla M, Tarima S, Zenga J, Paulson ES.) Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology. January 2025;33 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85214566416 01/01/2025
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IEPA, a novel radiation countermeasure, alleviates acute radiation syndrome in rodents.
(Wesolowski R, Fish BL, Eibl M, Bähr S, Munjal Mehta S, Czajkowski MT, Gasperetti T, Orschell CM, Asang C, Singh N, Himburg HA, Pleimes D.) Int J Radiat Biol. 2025;101(1):1-14 PMID: 39531584 PMCID: PMC11698650 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85209667085 11/13/2024