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Kai Ding

Kai Ding, MBA, MS, PhD

Highlights

Languages

  • English

Gender

Male

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:

  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

About Kai Ding

Professional Titles

  • Founding Co-Director of the Medical Physics PhD Program
  • Founding Co-Director of the Medical Physics Certificate Program
  • Director of the Medical Physics Residency Program

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences

Background

After earning his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, Dr. Ding completed his radiation oncology physics residency in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Virginia. He then served as a medical physicist in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center and as an assistant professor in the Division of Medical Physics in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Ding is currently Associate Professor and Senior Medical Physicist in the Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He also serves as Founding Co-Director of the Medical Physics PhD Program, Founding Co-Director of the Medical Physics Certificate Program, Director of the Medical Physics Residency, and Director of the Smart Biomaterial & Image-Guided Radiotherapy Lab. He holds a secondary appointment in Oncology and is affiliated with the Cancer Molecular & Functional Imaging Program at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, the Carnegie Center for Surgical Innovation, the Data Science and AI Institute, and the Imaging AI Subcouncil of the Johns Hopkins Medicine AI & Data Trust Council. Make a gift today

Centers and Institutes

Additional Academic Titles

Associate Professor of Oncology

Research Interests

Image Guided Radiotherapy, Medical Image Analysis, Smart Radiotherapy Biomaterial

Lab Website

Ding Research Lab - Lab Website

Google Scholar - Publications

PubMed - Publications

Selected Publications

  • Li M, Zhan Z, Huang J, Yeung J, Ding K, Blaes A, Johnson S, Liu H, Xu H, Zhang R. CancerLLM: a large language model in cancer domain. npj Digital Medicine. 2026 Feb 20.
  • Moreau M, Kelly K, Mao S, China D, Wasihun G, Pandya A, Tajik-Mansoury M, Sforza D, Miles D, Narang AK, Rezaee M, Ngwa Wilfred, Ding K. Leveraging the Immune Response from LIFE Biomaterial and Photon-Flash in Pre-Clinical Pancreatic Cancer Treatment. Pharmaceutics. 2025 Sep 29;17(10):1273.
  • Luo Y, Hooshangnejad H, Feng X, Huang G, Chen X, Zhang R, Chen Q, Ngwa W, Ding K. A Language Vision Model Approach for Automated Tumor Contouring in Radiation Oncology. Bioengineering. 2025 Jul 31;12(8):835.
  • Appidi T, China D, Ștefan GR, Moreau M, Mao S, Velarde E, Toyang N, Lowe H, Rengan A, Ding K, Ngwa W. Engineered multifunctional nanoparticles for enhanced radiation therapy: Three-in-one approach for cancer treatment. Molecular Cancer. 2025 Mar 6;24(1):68.
  • Hooshangnejad H, China D, Huang Yi, Zbijewski W, Uneri A, McNutt T, Lee J, Ding K. XIOSIS: an X-ray-based intra-operative image guided platform for oncology smart material delivery. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging vol. 43, no. 9, pp. 3176-3187, Sept. 2024

Graduate Program Affiliations

Additional Training

American Board of Radiology / Therapeutic Medical Physics (2013)

Expertise

Education

  • Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business, M.B.A., 2022
  • University of Iowa, M.S., 2010
  • University of Iowa, Ph.D., 2010
  • Hangzhou University, B.S., 2006