Science & Technology Advisors

Professor Milton Brian Yatvin
Senior Scientific Advisor - HL-WBH

Milton Brian Yatvin is currently Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health and Sciences University. He earned his PhD Degree at Rutgers University in 1962. His professional accomplishments span various research areas, primary among them the mechanism of cell death following exposure to either hyperthermia or radiation, the use of temperature and pH sensitive liposomes for drug delivery, and the role of hyperthermia in treating retroviral diseases and cancer. His scientific work has earned him numerous awards and honors, as well as international recognition.

Professor Yatvin has held a number of teaching and research positions at universities in both the US (Rutgers University, The University of Puerto Rico, College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oregon Health and Sciences University) and overseas (UK, Malaysia, Israel, Germany). Between 1982 and 1985 he was I.A.E.A. Expert in Radiobiology in Malaysia. He received a Fogarty Senior International Research Fellowship, DHEW-PHS (1979-1980) and a U.S.P.H.S. Research Career Development Award from the National Cancer Institute (1968-1973). Between 1978 and 1981 he was a member of the N.I.H. Cancer Research Manpower Review Committee. In 1988 he was granted a Recognition Award from University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sigma XI Chapter.

Professor Yatvin has been a member of the following organizations: The Society for Thermal Medicine (STM), The International Clinical Hyperthermia Society (ICHS), The American Physiological Society, The Endocrine Society, Sigma XI, The Radiation Research Society, The Biophysical Society, The European Society for Radiation Biology, and The International Society for Antiviral Research.

He has authored over 150 publications in refereed journals, solicited chapters and review articles. He also holds more than 20 patents, mainly related to specific release of drugs targeted to infected cells and diseased areas of the body.