More Research on Radiation Damage to DNA

Distinguished Professor Michael Sevilla, of the Department of Chemistry, published another in a long series of articles about radiation damage to DNA. His paper "Sugar Radical Formation by a Proton Coupled Hole Transfer in 2'-Deoxyguanosine Radical Cation (2'-dG(center dot+)): A Theoretical Treatment" appeared in the October 8, 2009 issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B (Volume 113, Pages 13374-13380). Sevilla's work, published over decades, is highly cited. In 2008, his papers were cited over 300 times in the scientific literature. In other words, nearly once a day someone cites Sevilla. He has a lofty h-index of 38, meaning he has 38 papers each with over 38 citations. For years his research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health. The first author on this recent paper is Anil Kumar, one of Sevilla's team of collegues who collaborate on this research. For more about Sevilla, see an article about him in the OU magazine.