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Andrew Kennedy, Md, became a director of the Company on July 26, 2006, and a Director and Officer of our subsidiary, Oncologix Corporation upon the merger. The major part of his time and efforts will continue to be applied to his position as co-medical director for Wake Radiology Oncology Services in Cary, North Carolina, where he has been since 2002 and where his primary activity is providing patients with treatments for cancer, specializing in gastrointestinal cancers, as well as cancers of the breast, lung and cervix.
From 1997 until 2002, he was an associate professor in the Radiation Oncology and head of GI radiation oncology at The University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Residency program director. He is an internationally known radiation oncologist He has given numerous presentations on radiation therapy
for the treatment of colorectal and liver cancer, and was instrumental in reintroducing an important new treatment for liver cancer, called infusion of microspheres, which offers hope to patients who have not had success with chemotherapy. He developed the most commonly used protocol in the US for infusion of microspheres and is the recipient of more than $900,000 in research grants to further investigate this and other cancer treatments. He has written many peer-reviewed scientific papers, articles, book chapters and abstracts on radiation oncology and has been invited to give presentations on radiation therapy for GI cancers and infusion of microspheres at the premier medical conferences in the United States, Asia and Europe. He is a graduate of Loma Linda School of Medicine, in Loma Linda, California, and completed his residency
at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where, as chief resident, and later a research fellow, he completed significant work in three-dimensional treatment planning (3D external beam radiation therapy) and radiobiology research. | 