Affiliation: Yale University, Department of Therapeutic Radiology

Dr. Vijay Menon is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Therapeutic Radiology at Yale University. His current work involves the study of UV-induced rare mutations in sun-exposed skin using high-throughput duplex sequencing to be used as a metric to measure a patient’s past UV exposure and future skin cancer risk. Dr. Menon received his PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, Virginia, during which he investigated the mechanism of action of novel platinum compounds in cancer cells. This was followed by postdoctoral positions at VCU and Icahn School of Medicine. His research expertise mainly includes DNA damage response and repair pathways, erythropoiesis and hematopoiesis, mitochondrial dynamics and redox signaling, and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS).