Dr. Albert J. Fornace Jr. holds the Molecular Cancer Research Chair at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and is also a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology and the Department of Radiation Medicine. He is the founding director of the Center for Metabolomic Studies (CMS) at Georgetown University Medical Center. He has extensive experience in radiation carcinogenesis and radiation injury; this includes particle radiation with relevance to space radiation and also radiation therapy. Along with his collaborators, he established the field of radiation metabolomics over the last 15 years. He is an internationally recognized expert in stress-signaling mechanisms and molecular radiobiology being in the top 0.5% of cited authors in the life sciences with 56,620 citations from 435 publications. His studies encompass many areas of cell and tissue injury with relevance to radiobiology, cancer biology, immunology, metabolomics, toxicology, and microbiome research.