The Wither's Archive
- Resource Type
- Document
- Resource Owner
- Other
- Description
- Dr. H. Rodney Withers (1932–2015) was one of the preeminent radiation biologists of his time, beginning in the 1960s and spanning more than 4 decades. Prior to his death from Parkinson's disease in 2015, his long-time colleagues Kathy Mason and Howard Thames discussed with him about making his immense data base of normal tissue responses available to the worldwide scientific community by converting his handwritten lab notebooks into searchable digitized data files. Dr. Withers wholeheartedly agreed and over a span of 4 years, tens of thousands of animal observations were digitized by Nancy Hunter into the “Withers Archive”. Some of these results have never been analyzed or published, and as we and former collaborators enter retirement it would have been impossible for future investigators to gain access to his data. For this reason, we have digitized the contents of the lab notebooks. It was Rod's hope and ours that this data will have interest to newer scientists in the fields of radiation oncology and biology and their future use of this data base will continue to benefit cancer patients now and in the future.
- URL
- https://www.mdanderson.org/content/dam/mdanderson/documents/Research-Centers-&-Institutes/Center-for-Radiation-Oncology-Research/THE%20WITHERS%20ARCHIVE.pdf
- Technical Areas
- Occupational Radiological Exposure Epidemiologic Research
- Target Audiences
- Researcher
