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About DCEG

Ihor Masnyk, Ph.D.

Location: 6120 Executive Boulevard, EPS Room 7102
Phone: 301-594-7659
E-mail: masnyki@mail.nih.gov

  

Biography

Dr. Ihor J. Masnyk was born in Ukraine on September 17, 1930. Dr. Masnyk earned his B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1953. He then went on to get a M.S. in Organic Chemistry in 1958, and was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1962. Dr. Masnyk served in the U.S. Army Active Duty Service from 1955 to 1957. He then served in the U.S. Army Active Reserve Duty between 1957 and 1985. Dr. Masnyk served as a Retired Reserve from 1985-1990, before retiring as a Colonel in 1991. Dr. Masnyk has been employed at the National Cancer Institute since 1962. He served as the Associate Director (Acting) for the Office of International Affairs. In 1999, he was appointed as the U.S. Chornobyl Projects Director to oversee the Chornobyl Research Project.

Research Interests

Chornobyl accident aftermath on thyroid cancer among those that were children in 1986 and on leukemia among the liquidators

Research Summary

  • Publications of the methodology appeared early this year
  • The results of the first screening cycle in Ukraine are in preparation.
  • Results of leukemia study should be ready for publication early next year.

Keywords

Chornobyl, thyroid cancer, leukemia, screening

Selected Publications

  • Masnyk, I.J.: "Prognostic Function Study for Adrenalectomy and Hypophysectomy," Abstracts of the Breast Cancer Task Force, 1974, P. 55.
  • Masnyk, I.J.: "Prognostic Function Study for Adrenalectomy and Hypohysectomy," Overview of Diagnosis Program, Division of Cancer Biology and Diagnosis, Columbia, MD, October 20-22, 1975, p. 213.
  • Masnyk, I.J.: "Comparison of Grant Versus Contract Supported Research in Cancer Diagnosis," Overview of Diagnosis Program, Division of Cancer Biology and Diagnosis, Columbia, MD, October 20-22, 1975, p. 240.
  • Masnyk, I.J.: "Grant Supported Cancer Diagnosis Research," Overview of Diagnosis Program, Division of Cancer Biology and Diagnosis, October 5-7, 1977, P. 18.
  • Masnyk, I.J., Silverman, D. and Hankey, B.: "Prognostic Function Study for Adrenalectomy," Program and Abstracts, Third International Symposium on Detection and Prevention of Cancer, New York, 1976, P. 45.
  • Masnyk, I.J., Silverman, D. and Hankey, B.: "Prediction of Response to Adrenalectomy in Treatment of Advanced Breast Cancer," Gynecology, April 1979, P. 48.
  • Masnyk, I.J.: "Urinary Steroid Hormones used in Identifying Early Cases of Breast Cancer Recurrence after Radical Mastectomy." In Adrenal Androgens Satellite of the International Symposium on Hormones and Cancer, Sienna, October 7-8, 1979, p. 84.
  • Masnyk, I.J.: "PDQ System: Instant Access to Knowledge," 22nd National Conference on Breast Cancer, Boston, MA, May 12, 1986.
  • Masnyk, I.J.: "Circulating Tumor Markers," 22nd National Conference on Breast Cancer, Boston, MA, May 13, 1986.
  • Masnyk, I.J.: "International Collaboration in Cancer Research," International Cancer Congress, Budapest, Hungary, August 21-27, 1986.
  • Masnyk, I.J.: "International Cooperation in Cancer Research," Korea-USA Joint Symposium on Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Seol, Korea, November 10, 1986.
  • Masnyk, I.J.: "Biomedical Aspects of Chornobyl Catastrophe," Symposium on Chornobyl Nuclear Explosion TWG -Washington, D.C., December 10, 1986.
  • Masnyk, I.J.: "Computers in Medicine." Third Convention of World Federation of Ukrainian Medical Associations, Kiev, Ukraine, August 1990.
  • Masnyk, I.J.: "Environmental Pollution Effects on Health in Ukraine." Scientific Conference of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences, New York NY, 1990.
  • Masnyk, I.J.: "Analysis of IAEA Report (F. Mettler)." Panel on Aftereffects of Chornobyl Accident, Convention of UMANA, Chicago, XL, June 27-30, 1991.
  • Masnyk, I.J.: "Health Care in Ukraine: What can be done to improve it?" Scientific Conference of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences, New York NY, September 1991. "Children's Cataracts Resulting from Chornobyl Explosion." University of Pittsburgh Chornobyl Collaborative Study Report, Pittsburgh, PA, 17 May 1992.
  • Masnyk, I.J.: "Chornobyl's Impact on Cancer Incidence and Mortality (Panel Moderator)." Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund Convention, East Hanover, NJ, June 12-13, 1993.
  • Masnyk, I.J.: "Organization of Clinical Research Projects in Ukraine." Convention of UMANA, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, JULY 1-5, 1993.
  • Masnyk, I.J.: "U.S. Grant System for Research Support." Ukraine/American Medical Sciences Group Meeting, Kiev, 14 September 1993.
  • V. Ostapenko, S. Petrenko, O. Polyanskaya, V. Rzheutski, N. Litvinova, N, Lesnikova, V, Drozd, L. Danilova, V. Stezhko, G. Beebe, A. Brill, D. Fink, E. Greenbaum, G. Howe, R. McConnell, I. J. Masnyk, J. Robbins, Clinical Research Institute of Radiation Medicine and Endocrinology, Ministry of Health, Belarus; National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA; Columbia University, N.Y., N.Y., USA: "Prevalence of Thyroid Antibodies in the Belarus-USA Study of Thyroid Cancer and Other Thyroid Diseases Following the Chernobyl Accident;" 12th International Thyroid Congress, 22-27 October, 2000 Kyoto, Japan.
  • Tronko, M., Bogdanova, Epshtein, 0., Oliynyk V., Tereshchenko, V., Likhtarev, I., Kairo, I., Beebe, G., Bouville, A., Fink, D., Greenebaurn, E., Howe, G., Masnyk, I.J.; McConnell, R., Robbins, J.; Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, AMS Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine; National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA.; Columbia University, N.Y., N.Y., USA; "Screening of Thyroid Status After the Chornobyl Accident." 12th International Thyroid Congress, 22-27 October, 2000, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Beebe, G., Bouville, A., Luckyanov, N., Masnyk, I., Robbins, J. ”Thyroid Cancer in Those Exposed as Children to Chornobyl fallout, Belarus and Ukraine.”, Poster presentation at two meetings: (1) “Common Frontiers in Cancer Research”, Joint meeting of NCI and the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Bethesda, MD, February 23, 2000 and (2) NCI Combined Intramural Principal Investigator Retreat, Chantilly, VA, January 11-12, 2001.
  • Tronko, M., Bolshova, O., Epshtein, O., Kravachenko, V., et. al. "Serum thyroglobulin in subjects with thyroid cancer, diffuse and nodule goiter, and low urine iodine content: experience from the Ukrainian-USA Chornobyl thyroid disease cohort study." 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association, September 13-16, 2001. Program Abstract: 218.
  • "A cohort study of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases after the Chornobyl accident: objectives, design and methods;" Radiation Research, Vol.161, No 4, April 2004.

Collaborators

DCEG Collaborators

  • Andre Bouville, Ph.D.; Alina Brenner, M.D., Ph.D.; Luckyanov, Nick, Ph.D.; Hatch, Maureen, Ph.D.; Ron, Elaine, Ph.D.

Other Scientific Collaborators

  • Stuart Finch, M.D., Consultant, Columbia University, NY, NY
  • Daniel Fink, MD, MPH, Columbia University, NY, NY
  • Ellen Greenebaum, M.D., Columbia University, NY, NY
  • Geoffrey Howe, Ph.D., Columbia University, NY, NY
  • Eleanora Kapitonova, M.D., Centre for Radiation Medicine, Gomel, Belarus
  • Robert McConnell, M.D., Columbia University, NY, NY
  • Robert Reiss, M.D., Columbia University, NY, NY
  • Jacob Robbins, M.D., NIDDK, Bethesda, MD
  • Anatoly Romanenko, M.D., Institute of Radiation Medicine, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Mykola Tronko, M.D., Institute of Endocrinology, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Ukrainian Team of the UkrAM Thyroid Project
  • Belarusian Team of the BelAM Thyroid Project
  • Ukrainian Team of the Leukemia Study
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