Pavel Vodicka
Institute of experimental medicine,
Czech Republic
Biography
P Vodicka graduated at the Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague and in 1986 obtained PhD in Biochemistry. He worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland (1987-1990) and as Visiting Scientist at Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden (1990-1993). Since 2002 he heads the Department of Molecular Biology Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic. He has published more than 150 (more than 3000 citations a HI 32) articles. Since 2004, his main research topics are focused on the DNA and chromosomal damage and DNA repair functional tests in humans and on transient biomarkers in the onset of gastrointestinal cancers. In 2012 he edited the special issue in Mutagenesis, Colorectal Cancer- Current Insights into Susceptibility.
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