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Kai Jiang, Ph.D.

Kai Jiang, Ph.D.

Titles and Appointments

Assistant Professor

Schools
Medical School
Departments
Radiation Oncology
  • Biography

    Kai Jiang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, is a medical physicist in the Department of Radiation Oncology. He earned his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Case Western Reserve University and completed a research fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. He went on to complete his medical physics residency at the University of Maryland Baltimore, where he later served as a faculty physicist.

    Dr. Jiang serves as lead physicist at VROC. His mission is to ensure safe and accurate delivery of state-of-the-art radiotherapy to our animal patients. Dr. Jiang has over a decade of experience working with animals, including laboratory rodents, rabbits, and swine. He is also engaged in preclinical research studies aimed at developing advanced imaging technologies for disease diagnoses, and innovating radiotherapy technologies for more effective cancer treatment. His research has led to publication of over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. 

  • Education
    Graduate School
    (2015), Biomedical Engineering
  • Publications
    Enable preclinical, high-precision image-guided radiotherapy research with a stand-alone small animal IGRT system
    Deng W, Han D, Byrne KE, Bhandary B, Jiang K, Poirier YP, Mossahebi S, Xu J, Shukla H, Sawant A Medical physics 2026 Apr 53
    Comparison of Quantitative and Semiquantitative MT-MRI for Detection of Interstitial Fibrosis in Kidney Transplant Recipients
    Liu YF, Abdurakhimova DA, Al Saeedi MS, Lewis BR, Zhu XY, Tang H, Xue AL, Misra S, Lerman A, Jiang K, Kukla A, Lerman LO Investigative Radiology 2026 Jan Publish Ahead of Print
    What’s in a Proton FLASH Beam? Characterizing Ultra-High Dose Rate Protons Using a Commercial Plastic Scintillator
    Poirier Y, Byrne KE, Hamad G, Therriault-Proulx F, Jiang K, Deng W, Sawant A, Mossahebi S Radiation research 2025 Mar 203 201-213
    A high-throughput focused collimator for OAR-sparing preclinical proton FLASH studies: commissioning and validation
    Mossahebi S, Byrne K, Jiang K, Gerry A, Deng W, Repetto C, Jackson IL, Sawant A, Poirier Y Physics in medicine and biology 2024 Jul 69
    Technical note: A small animal irradiation platform for investigating the dependence of the FLASH effect on electron beam parameters
    Byrne KE, Poirier Y, Xu J, Gerry A, Foley MJ, Jackson IL, Sawant A, Jiang K Medical physics 2024 Feb 51 1421-1432
    Evaluation of Renal Fibrosis Using Magnetization Transfer Imaging at 1.5T and 3T in a Porcine Model of Renal Artery Stenosis
    Gandhi DB, Al Saeedi M, Krier JD, Jiang K, Glockner JF, Lerman LO Journal of Clinical Medicine 2023 Apr 12
    Efficacy of Human Embryonic Stem Cells Compared to Adipose Tissue-Derived Human Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells for Repair of Murine Post-Stenotic Kidneys
    Siddiqi S, Klomjit N, Jiang K, Conley SM, Zhu X, Saadiq IM, Ferguson CM, Tang H, Lerman A, Lerman LO Stem Cell Reviews and Reports 2023 Feb 19 491-502
    Evaluation of treatment planning system accuracy in estimating the stopping-power ratio of immobilization devices for proton therapy
    Jiang K, MacFarlane M, Mossahebi S, Zakhary MJ Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2023 Feb 24
    Human Obesity Attenuates Cardioprotection Conferred by Adipose Tissue–Derived Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells
    Yu S, Klomjit N, Jiang K, Zhu XY, Ferguson CM, Conley SM, Obeidat Y, Kellogg TA, McKenzie T, Heimbach JK, Lerman A, Lerman LO Journal of cardiovascular translational research 2023 Feb 16 221-232
    Magnetization Transfer Imaging
    Ebrahimi B, Jiang K, Lerman L 2023 Jan 181-195