Karen Kirkby BSc, PhD

Prof Karen Kirkby is the Director of Science for the Surrey Ion Beam Centre (IBC), an EPSRC national facility, which was jointly awarded the Queens Anniversary Prize in 2002. The IBC works with 50 Universities and research institutions and 35 different industrial concerns across the UK and internationally and supports in excess of £70M of EPSRC grants. Karen led the team that brought in a prestigious grant from the Wolfson Foundation to build a vertical nanobeam for cell irradiation studies using charged particles. This radical new facility underpins work in the UK and Europe on particle therapy, a novel type of radiotherapy, for which the government has recently announced 3 new centres which will come on line in about 5 years time.

His publications are as follows:
Kirkby KJ, jeynes JC, Merchant MJ, Spindler A, Wera AC. (2014) 'Investigation of gold nanoparticle radiosensitisation mechanisms using a free radical scavenger and protons of different energies'. Physics in Medicine and Biology,.
Wéra AC, Barazzuol L, Jeynes JC, Merchant MJ, Suzuki M, Kirkby KJ. (2014) 'Influence of the nucleus area distribution on the survival fraction after charged particles broad beam irradiation.'. Phys Med Biol, England: 59 (15), pp. 4197-4211.
Barazzuol L, Jeynes JC, Merchant MJ, Wera AC, Barry M, Kirkby KJ, Suzuki M. (2014) 'Radiosensitisation of glioblastoma cells using a histone deacetylase inhibitor (SAHA) comparing carbon ions with X-rays'. International Journal of Radiation Biology.
Jeynes JCG, Jeynes C, Merchant MJ, Kirkby KJ. (2013) 'Measuring and modelling cell-to-cell variation in uptake of gold nanoparticles'. Analyst, (138), pp. 7070-7074.
Jeynes JC, Merchant MJ, Barazzuol L, Barry M, Guest D, Palitsin VV, Grime GW, Tullis ID, Barber PR, Vojnovic B, Kirkby KJ. (2013) '"Broadbeam" irradiation of mammalian cells using a vertical microbeam facility.'. Springer Berlin Heidelberg Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, 52 (4), pp. 513-521.