264Stephan Woditschka, PhD, MSc
Department of Biology and Marine Biology
University of North Carolina Wilmington
601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403
Mail Stop: Dobo Hall Campus Box 5915
Office phone: (910) 962-3670
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
2010 MSc Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Epidemiology Focus: Pharmaco-epidemiology, Biostatistics
2008 PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Genetics Focus: Breast Cancer, Chemoprevention, Biomarkers
2002 BS University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Biological Sciences Focus: Plant Biology
APPOINTMENTS
2014 - Present Lecturer, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC
2012 Lecturer, Howard University, Washington, DC
2008 - 2014 Postdoctoral Fellow, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
2003 - 2008 Predoctoral Research Fellow, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, Madison,
WI
PUBLICATIONS
Woditschka S, Evans L, Duchnowska R, Reed LT, Palmieri D, Qian Y, Badve S, Sledge G, Gril B, Aladjem
M, Fu H, Flores N, Gökmen-Polar Y, Biernat W, Szutowicz-Zieliska E, Mandat T, Trojanowski T, Och W,
Czartoryska-Arlukowicz B, Jassem J, Mitchell J, Steeg PS. DNA double-strand break repair genes and
oxidative damage in brain metastasis of breast cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2014;106(7).
Palmieri D, Duchnowska R, Woditschka S, Hua E, Qian Y, Biernat W, Sosiska-Mielcarek K, Gril B, Stark
A, Hewitt S, Liewwhr DJ, Steinberg SM, Jassem J, Steeg PS. Profound prevention of experimental brain
metastases of breast cancer by temozolomide in an MGMT-dependent manner. Clin Cancer Res.
2014;20(10):2727-39.
Marino N, Woditschka S, Reed LT, Nakayama J, Mayer M, Wetzel M, Steeg PS. Breast Cancer Metastasis:
Issues for the Personalization of Its Prevention and Treatment. Am J Pathol. 2013; 183(4):1084-95.
Woditschka S, Gril B, Evans LM, Reed TL, Steeg PS. 2012. The molecular biology of brain metastasis. in:
Pamieri D (ed) Brain and Central Nervous System metastasis, the biological basis and clinical
considerations. Springer Press, The Netherlands.