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Radiation risk assessment and protection; risk versus benefit associated with environmental and medical exposures. Credit not allowed for both ERHS 551C and ERHS 550 (Principles of Radiation Biology).
ERHS 551B (Radiation Biology Principles for Medicine: Principles of Radiation Oncology)
This course is also available as a noncredit option. See the EDLL 2009 course page if you want the content, but don't need the college credits.
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Dr. Bailey is a professor and a cancer molecular biologist in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences (ERHS). Her current research program, funded primarily by NASA, focuses on the role of chromosomes and telomeres (the ends of chromosomes) in cancer and other human disease states (e.g., cardiovascular disease). Studies focus on interactions between telomeres and DNA repair, with the ultimate goal of shedding light on a key issue in these increasingly overlapping fields—how cells distinguish between natural chromosomal termini and broken DNA ends. Such studies also impact investigation of telomere length maintenance by telomerase as an informative biomarker of biological aging, and therefore disease risk, which is influenced by a variety of lifestyle factors, including stress (e.g., nutritional, psychological, physical) and environmental exposures (e.g., UV and ionizing radiations).