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Low Dose
Radiation
Effects
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Dr. Mitchel is a Canadian scientist
with more than 35 years of research experience in
the biological effects of low doses of ionizing radiation. His research
knowledge is very broadly based, with experiments using human and animal
cells grown in tissue culture, experiments using lower organisms and
experiments using animals.
Many technologists, graduate
students, research associates and visiting scientists have worked with Dr.
Mitchel in his research laboratories, located at Atomic Energy of Canada’s
Chalk River Laboratories in the Ottawa Valley.
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Ph.D. in
Biochemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Post doctoral
fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, Ca
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Senior Scientist, Radiation Biology and Health Physics Branch, Atomic Energy of
Canada, Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk River,
Ontario, Canada
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Professor of Biology (Adjunct), Member of the School of
Graduate Studies, University of Ottawa University of Ottawa, Ottawa Ontario,
Canada 1996 - 2003
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Member of the Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology 1996 - present
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Member of the Grants Review Panel, National Cancer Institute of Canada 1999 -
2001
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Professor of Biology (Adjunct), Laurentian University,
Sudbury Ontario, Canada 1999 - present
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Recipient of the 2003
W. B. Lewis Medal, awarded by the Canadian Nuclear Society,
for contributions to the understanding of the health effects of low dose
ionizing radiation
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Guest Editor of journal Nonlinearity in Biology, Toxicology and Medicine
2003 - 2004
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Associate Editor of the journal
Radiation Research
1999 - 2007 |
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Associate Editor of journal Nonlinearity
in Biology, Toxicology and Medicine
(from 2006 renamed Dose Response) 2004 -
present
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Recipient of the 2007 Career Achievement Award from the
International Hormesis Society |
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Scientific
Consultant, Atomic Energy of Canada, Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk
River, Ontario
2007 - present |
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Research Interests
Dr. Mitchel's research is
focussed on the response of cells and animals to exposures of low doses of
radiation like X-rays and gamma rays, and in particular the ability of cells
and animals to adapt to radiation exposure.
This research has shown that low
dose exposures increase the ability of cells and animals to repair damage to
the cells genetic material, the DNA, and reduce the consequences of further
damage. His research was the
first
to show that a low dose reduced the risk that a normal
cell would spontaneously turn into a cancer cell.
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