Ruth J. Muschel, M.D., Ph.D.

Ruth J. Muschel is Professor of Molecular Pathology and of Radiation Oncology and Biology at University of Oxford. Dr. Muschel’s research focuses on role of signaling pathways in the response of cancer cells to radiation therapy.

She began her research career at Cornell University where she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Efraim Racker on the relationships between the proteins of the mitochondrial inner membrane. She graduated from Cornell in 1972 and entered the Einstein MSTP program. Her PhD thesis work was performed in the laboratory of Dr. Barry Bloom studying phagocytosis in macrophages. Following graduation she completed an internship in Internal Medicine at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center and a residency in Pathology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. She then moved to the NIH where she was a Medical Staff fellow in the Laboratory of Tumor Virology and a Senior Investigator at the NCI. In 1987 she moved to the University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. She became a Professor in 1998 and in 2005 moved to her current position at University of Oxford.

Dr. Muschel is the author of over 130 publications and has been an invited speaker at meetings around the world. She is the editor of Cancer Letters, an Associate Editor of Cancer Research and on the Editorial Board of American Journal of Pathology and Molecular Cancer Research. She was a member and Chair of the NIH Pathology B Study Section. She is a member of and has held numerous leadership positions in the American Society for Experimental Pathology, Radiation Research Society and the American Association for Cancer Research.