Frederick R. Strebel, B.S.

Mr. Strebel has been manager of the Hyperthermia Research Laboratory in the Division of Oncology at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston since 1983. He graduated from Dickinson College, PA with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology. After 6 years as a Research Technician at New York Medical College, Mr. Strebel came to Houston where he held Research Assistant positions, first at Baylor College of Medicine and then at the University of Texas Medical School. He also embarked on graduate studies in epidemiology at the University of Texas School of Public Health. He is now a Senior Research Associate, and much in demand for his expertise in experimental laboratory animal models and techniques in cancer research, especially rodent tumor models requiring intravenous (tail vein) injection of anti-cancer therapeutic agents. He has co-authored, and been critical in the research work leading to, more than 30 publications on thermal therapy of cancer generated by our Research Laboratory. Mr. Strebel is responsible for maintaining all of the tumor cell lines for the Hyperthermia Research Laboratory, and has pioneered the development of a safe, effective, and highly reproducible method for inducing therapeutic, long-duration, fever-range whole body thermal therapy (FR-WB-TT) in rats bearing highly metastatic experimental tumors. He has tailored our experimental thermal therapy and tumor model(s) to further develop new, more effective, and less toxic, multi-modality cancer treatment(s) combining thermal therapy with systemically administered chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and/or gene therapy with a view to rapid clinical translation for cancer patients.