Yao Ding, Ph.D.
Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Physics - Patient Care, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Physics - Patient Care, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2012 | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, US, Radiological Sciences, Ph.D |
Postgraduate Training
| 2012-2017 | Research Fellowship, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas |
Experience & Service
Other Appointments/Responsibilities
Research Scientist, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2017 - 2019
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Zhao, Y, Cozma, A, Ding, Y, Perles, LA, Reiazi, R, Chen, X, Kang, AM, Prajapati, S, Yu, H, Subashi, ED, Brock, K, Wang, J, Beddar, S, Lee, B, Mohammedsaid, M, Cooper, S, Westley, RL, Tree, A, Mohamad, O, Hassanzadeh, CJ, Mok, H, Choi, S, Tang, C, Yang, J. Upper Urinary Tract Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy Using a 1.5 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Linear Accelerator. Cancers 16(23), 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Leary, OP, Zepecki, JP, Pizzagalli, M, Toms, SA, Liu, DD, Suita, Y, Ding, Y, Wang, J, He, R, Chung, C, Fuller, C, Boxerman, JL, Tapinos, NI, Gilbert, RJ. Tumor-Associated Tractography Derived from High-Angular-Resolution Q-Space MRI May Predict Patterns of Cellular Invasion in Glioblastoma †. Cancers 16(21), 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39518107.
- El-Habashy DM, Wahid KA, He R, McDonald B, Mulder SJ, Ding Y, Salzillo T, Lai SY, Christodouleas J, Dresner A, Wang J, Naser MA, Fuller CD, Mohamed ASR, Head J, Development Cooperative NRT. Dataset of weekly intra-treatment diffusion weighted imaging in head and neck cancer patients treated with MR-Linac. Sci Data 11(1):487, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38734679.
- Wang L, Ding Y, Bruno TL, Stafford RJ, Lin E, Bathala TK, Sanders JW, Ning MS, Ma J, Klopp AH, Venkatesan A, Wang J, Martirosyan KS, Frank SJ. A Novel Positive-Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Line Marker for High-Dose-Rate (HDR) MRI-Assisted Radiosurgery (MARS). Cancers (Basel) 16(10), 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38792000.
- Sun M, Wang Y, Zheng C, Wei Y, Hou J, Zhang P, He W, Lv X, Ding Y, Liang H, Hon CC, Chen X, Xu H, Chen Y. Systematic functional interrogation of human pseudogenes using CRISPRi. Genome Biol 22(1):240, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34425866.
- Lee J, Steinmann A, Ding Y, Lee H, Owens C, Wang J, Yang J, Followill D, Ger R, MacKin D, Court LE. Radiomics feature robustness as measured using an MRI phantom. Sci Rep 11(1):3973, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33597610.
- Chen C, Xie JJ, Ding F, Jiang YS, Jin B, Wang S, Ding Y, Li H, Jiang B, Zhu JM, Ding MP, Chen Z, Wu ZY, Zhang BR, Hsu YC, Lai HY, Wang S. 7T MRI with post-processing for the presurgical evaluation of pharmacoresistant focal epilepsy. Ther Adv Neurol Disord 14:17562864211021181, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34163537.
- Elhalawani H, Awan MJ, Ding Y, Mohamed ASR, Elsayes AK, Abu-Gheida I, Wang J, Hazle J, Gunn GB, Lai SY, Frank SJ, Ginsberg LE, Rosenthal DI, Fuller CD. Data from a terminated study on iron oxide nanoparticle magnetic resonance imaging for head and neck tumors. Sci Data 7(1):63, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32081849.
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