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  3. Research Spotlight: Dr. Gunnar Boysen

Research Spotlight: Dr. Gunnar Boysen

Dr. Boysen’s research interest has been in understanding the interplay between chemical exposure and nutritional or other lifestyle habits, such as diet selection and physical activity and how these and be used to improve prevention and treatment of lung cancer. To achieve this, he utilizes analytical chemistry tools to study carcinogen metabolism, how this is modified by nutritional components and the underlying mechanisms regulating corresponding enzyme activities. More recently he has focused on common metabolic pathways, using targeted and untargeted mass spectrometry-based metabolomic approaches to improve diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer.

Click here to read Dr. Boysen’s recent NIH-published article: Nanopore Sequencing for Detection and Characterization of Phosphorothioate Modifications in Native DNA Sequences.

Posted by Chris on March 16, 2023

Filed Under: EHS Research Blog Tagged With: UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health

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