Rainer Sachs, PhD


Adjunct Professor of Medicine, CCSB, Tufts University School of Medicine
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Physics, University of California, Berkeley
 
Ray maintains a webpage at UC Berkeley.
 

Education and Training:

Positions and Honors:

1962 – 63 Assistant Professor, Dept. Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken NJ
1963 – 66 Associate Professor, Dept. Physics, University of Texas at Austin
1966 Guggenheim Fellowship
1966 – 68 Professor, Dept. Physics, University of Texas at Austin
1969 – 92 Professor, Depts. Physics and Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley
1993 – Professor Emeritus, Dept. Physics and Dept. Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley
1993 – Research Professor of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley
2005 – Adjunct Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
2008 – Editorial Board, Biology Direct, Mathematical Biology
 

Ongoing Research Support:

DOE/Office of Science: BER (PI: P. Hahnfeldt; Consultant: R. Sachs)   7/2009 – 6/2012.
Intercellular interactions during tumor progression: implications for low-dose risk.
The goal of the grant is to analyze the implications of intercellular interactions on ionizing-radiation induced cancer risks at low and very low doses. Such interactions call into question a standard microdosimetric argument for risk linearity; a key question is to estimate in which direction the possible deviations from linearity may be.
 

Recently Completed Research Support:

NASA | NSCOR 04-0014-0017 / NNJ04HJ12G / NNJ06HA28G (PI: L. Hlatky; Asst. Dir.: R. Sachs)   1/1/2005 – 12/31/2009
Solid Tumor Risk Estimation for Astronauts: Incorporating Intercellular Interaction Effects.
The goal of the overall grant is to study radiation solid tumor risk to astronauts on an extended space mission, experimentally and mathematically. A Berkeley subcontract (PI: Sachs) emphasizes microdosimetry and the role of chromosome aberrations in carcinogenesis.

NIH | RO1 GM 068423 (PI: Sachs)   7/1/2003 – 6/30/2008
Updating Chromosome Aberration Simulator (CAS) Software.
Main goals were to make CAS freely available to the radiation cytogenetics community and to extend it.

DOE | DE-FG02-03ER63668 (PI: Sachs)   09/1/2003 – 8/31/2007
Modeling interellations between the bystander effect, chromosomal instability, and radiation risk.
The major goal of this project was to model signaling in the radiation bystander effect and low-dose cancer risk, using mathematical formalisms and computer simulations.
 

Selected Publications: