Janet Baulch, PhDProject Scientist
Janet E. Baulch is a project scientist in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of California, Irvine. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from the University of California, Davis in 2000. She remained at UC Davis, first as a postdoctoral fellow and later as assistant professor in the Division of Reproductive Biology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine, residing at what is now known as the Center for Health and the Environment. In 2005, Janet was recruited to the Department of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Oncology Research Laboratory at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She remained at the University of Maryland until 2013 when she was recruited to Charlie Limoli’s radiobiology department at UC Irvine. Dr. Baulch has been funded by the DOE Low Dose Program, NASA and DTRA to study terrestrial or space radiation effects on heritable endpoints, genomic instability, and more recently, neurocognition, and the epigenetic mechanisms that might underlie these radiation induced phenomena.