Seminar : Seminar of the International Consortium for Medical Care of Hibakusha and radiation Life Science

 
Estimation of the genetic risks of exposure to ionizing radiation in humans: current status and prospects in the post-genome era.


Professor Krishnaswami Sankaranarayanan
Dept. of Radiation Genetics and Chemical Mutagenesis,
Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands


Dr. Krishnaswami Sankaranarayanan is an expert of radiation genetics, who was an editor of Mutation Research for a long time. He is a professor of Leiden University which is one of the collaborative research organizations of Nagasaki University COE Program. Dr. Sankaranarayanan is a commission member of ICRP (The International Commission on Radiological Protection) and will attend the ICRP conference on low-dose radiation risk to be held in China and take the occasion to visit Nagasaki.

In this seminar Dr. Sankaranarayanan will give a talk on the current status and prospects of the estimation of the genetic risks of exposure to ionizing radiation in humans and his experience as a commission member.