Distinguished Professor Michael Sevilla Studies Radiation Damage

Distinguished Professor Michael Sevilla, of the Department of Chemistry, is a leading expert on the biological effects of radiation. (For more about Sevilla, see an article in the OU Magazine. To learn about radiation, see Sevilla's article Radiation: Risks and Rewards in the OU Journal.) Sevilla and his team published a study about Photoexcitation of Adenine Cation Radical [A(center dot+)] in the near UV-vis Region Produces Sugar Radicals in Adenosine and in Its Nucleotides in the December 11, 2008 issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B (Volume 112, Pages 15844-15855). First author Amitava Adhikary, a member of Sevilla's team, is also a distinguished researcher who recently won the 2007 Marie Curie Award from the Radiation Research Society. Sevilla's laboratory is supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.