Martin Hauer-Jensen, MD, PhD, FACS
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Surgery, and Pathology
Associate Dean for Research
Director, Division of Radiation Health

E-mail address: mhjensen@life.uams.edu
Phone: 501-686-7912
Fax:501-421-0022

1. Dr. Hauer-Jensen is Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Surgery, and Pathology at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Staff Surgeon at Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHS).
   
   
2. Dr. Hauer-Jensen’s research focuses on cancer survivorship issues, particularly on how to make radiation therapy more tolerable, safer, and more effective, and on development of medical countermeasures against radiological/nuclear accidents or terrorism.
   
   
3. Dr. Hauer-Jensen is co-leader of the Interventional Oncology and Host Response Program of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
   
   
4. Dr. Hauer-Jensen has published more than 130 peer reviewed scientific articles and book chapters. His research has received support from the American Cancer Society, Veterans Administration, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), and Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the Department of Defense.
   
   
5. Dr. Hauer-Jensen serves on several national and international peer review panels, task forces, and advisory boards. He was recently chairman of the Radiation Therapeutics and Biology Study Section, the panel that reviews radiation-related projects submitted to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
   
   
6. Dr. Hauer-Jensen received the American Cancer Society’s Legend Award for Cancer Research in 2004, has been listed in Best Doctors in America 8 times during the past 10 years, and received a MERIT (Mechanism to Extend Research in Time) award from the NIH in 2008.

Recent Publications

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Wang J, Zheng H, Kulkarni A, Ou X,  Hauer-Jensen M: Regulation of early and delayed radiation responses in rat small intestine by capsaicin-sensitive nerves. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2006;64:1528-1536. PMID: 16580503

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Wang J, Qiu X, Kulkarni A, Hauer-Jensen M: Calcitonin gene-related peptide and substance P regulate the intestinal radiation response. Clin Cancer Res 2006;12:4112-4118. PMID: 16818712

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Wang J, Boerma M, Fu Q, Fink LM, Hauer-Jensen M: Simvastatin ameliorates radiation enteropathy development after localized, fractionated irradiation by a protein C-independent mechanism. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2007;68:1483-1490. PMID: 17674978

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Boerma M, Wang J, Burnett AF, Santin AD, Roman JJ, Hauer-Jensen M: Local administration of interleukin-11 ameliorates intestinal radiation injury. Cancer Res 2007;67:9501-9506. PMID: 17909060

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Ross, CC, MacLeod SL, Plaxco JR, Froud JW, Fink LM, Wang J, Stites WE, Hauer-Jensen M: Inactivation of thrombomodulin by ionizing radiation in a cell-free system: possible implications for radiation responses in vascular endothelium. Radiat Res 2008;169:408-416. PMID: 18363428

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Fu Q, Wang J,Boerma M, Berbee M, Qiu X, Fink LM, Hauer-Jensen M: Involvement of heat shock factor 1 in statin-induced transcriptional upregulation of endothelial thrombomodulin. Circ Res 2008;103:369-377. PMID: 18599869