Rate My Professor Lara Barazzuol

Barazzuol earned her PhD in Radiation Biology from the University of Surrey in 2012 as a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher. She conducted postdoctoral research as a Research Associate at the University of Sussex's Centre for Genome Damage and Stability from 2013 to 2016 before establishing her independent research group at UMCG in 2016. Among her accolades are the Adrian C. Begg Award and Bas Mulder Award in 2017, the British Institute of Radiology Nic McNally Award in 2015, the International Congress of Radiation Research Young Investigator Award in 2015, and the European Radiation Research Society Best Poster Award in 2016. Notable publications include "Prevention and treatment of radiotherapy-induced side effects" (2020, with Robert P. Coppes and Peter van Luijk), "Cellular senescence contributes to radiation-induced hyposalivation by affecting the stem/progenitor cell niche" (2020), "Evaluation of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor ABT-888 combined with radiotherapy and temozolomide in glioblastoma" (2013), "Regional responses in radiation-induced normal tissue damage" (2021), and recent works such as "Differential synaptic signaling responses in human cortical organoids after photon and proton irradiation" (2026) and "Brain irradiation drives remote liver changes via senescence-independent mechanisms" (2026). She is an editor for the British Journal of Radiology and frequently speaks at international conferences on radiotherapy's impact on the brain and neuroimmune responses.