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Moon
Ejung Moon, PhD
- Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology Division, Fred Hutch
- Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington School of Medicine
About
Dr. Ejung Moon is a radiation oncologist and researcher at Fred Hutch who studies breast, lung, bladder and pancreatic cancers.
Background
Dr. Moon has expertise in tumor hypoxia, radiation biology, ferroptosis and mechanisms of therapeutic resistance. Her research focuses on understanding how cancer cells adapt to microenvironmental and treatment-induced stress and how these adaptations create vulnerabilities that can be therapeutically exploited.
As a physician and researcher, she has served as principal investigator for numerous clinical trials, including the effect of FLASH radiation on pancreatic cancer. Dr. Moon’s current research interests included understanding the tumor microenvironment; iron metabolism and ferroptosis; FLASH radiotherapy; tumor invasion and metastasis and DNA damage response.
She is a member of the European Association of Cancer Research, the Korean Scientists and Engineers Association in the UK and the Association for Radiation Research. Dr. Moon has extensively authored peer-reviewed publications and shares her research at multiple professional conferences.
Education
PhD, Pathology/Radiation Oncology, Duke University
BS, Biological Sciences, Ewha Women’s University
Awards & Honors
Young Investigator Travel Award and oral presentation, Radiation Research Society Meeting, 2008
Graduate School Travel Award, Duke University, 2008
Meeting Poster Presentation Award, Duke Cancer Center, 2008
Young Investigator Travel Award and poster presentation, International Congress of Radiation Research, 2007
Research Interests
Tumor microenvironment
Iron metabolism and ferroptosis
FLASH radiotherapy
Tumor invasion and metastasis
DNA damage response