Gunnar Boysen, PhD

Associate Member

Research Program:

Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences

Faculty Rank:

Associate Professor

Campus:

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

College:

College of Public Health

Department:

Environmental Health Sciences

Cancer Research Interest

Disease Site Focus: Breast, Head and Neck, Thoracic/ Lung
Research Focus Area: Prevention, Treatment, Detection, Carcinogenesis, Diagnosis/ Prognosis
Type of Research: Basic
Research Interest Statement: Dr. Boysen is associate professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. His research interest is in lifestyle-exposure-gene-interactions (LEGI) and how these affect carcinogenesis. He has been studying DNA and protein adducts to understand the internal dose exposures and metabolism, as well as how this is determined by genetic background and modified by nutritional components. Dr. Boysen received his PhD in chemistry from University of Kaiserslautern Germany in 2002 in collaboration with the University of Minnesota Cancer Center in Minneapolis, MN, for work on DNA and protein adducts derived from PAH and tobacco-specific nitrosamines. He then pursued a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina using several protein adducts to study species differences in biotransformation of 1,3-butadiene. During this time, he became interested in compound-compound interactions and the effects of co-exposures on carcinogen metabolism. He developed an adductomics tool to enable comprehensive profiling of reactive compounds in mixtures. More recently he develops personalize therapy, targeting metabolic reprogramming of metastases.

NIH/Nat. Inst. of Environmental Health Sciences – 1R01ES036931
“Understanding the origins of the mutational landscape in cancer”
Principal Investigator
2/24/2025 – 1/31/2028