Scientific Topics

• Occupational and environmental low dose and protracted exposure
•  Novel biomarkers for population screening
•  Radiation Epidemiology
• Computer simulation and modelling for low dose radiation risk
• Genetic susceptibility
• Immunological effects of radiation
• Long term effects of the medical applications of radiation
• Validity of the linear non-threshold model
• Hormesis and adaptive response
• Microenvironment modulation of radiation response
• Radioactive waste management
• Micro-array and proteomic analysis
• DNA repair and misrepair
• Radioprotectors and radiosensitizers
• Molecular and biophysical approaches to radiation-induced carcinogenesis
• Non-genetic effects of radiation
• Genomic and chromosomal instability
• Long term effects of non-ionizing radiation
• Microdosimetry and nanodosimetry

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