Inventor Profiles

Research area Radiation therapy can be used to cure many cancer patients. The Kimple lab uses powerful patient-derived model systems to study how cancers evolve to overcome current treatments. The research group studies treatments to overcome radiation-induced toxicity to improve patients’ quality of life. The team’s long-term goal is to offer personalized treatments to each patient.

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What excites you about your work? 

“My goal is for the things we do in our lab to impact the patients I see in clinic, and we have multiple projects where that is the case. It is incredibly fun and exciting to be at the point, after 14 years on the faculty here, where everyone in the lab can see that we’re doing things that have direct translational impact, that can truly impact the lives of cancer patients. The other part that excites me is the opportunity to share this journey with trainees—undergraduates, grad students, postdocs and residents. They can see how we go from basic work to translational work to clinical implementation.”

What do you hope to achieve? 

“I really want our patients in the future to be better off than our patients are today, and I can point to everything we do in the lab and how I hope it will impact the care we provide patients, by personalizing it and/or coming up with new approaches and therapies that didn’t exist before, that we have willed into existence. I also think it’s a privilege to be at a large land grant institution, and part of our job is to train the next generation that will follow us. I want to impact how we train, develop, mentor, teach, encourage and support trainees across the spectrum to believe they can do this type of work, as well.”

Dr. Kimple is an outstanding scientist with a focus on developing therapies to help patients. We look forward to supporting Dr. Kimple in moving his technologies forward.

– Rafael Diaz, WARF, Licensing Manager