Vinita Chauhan
Consumer and Clinical Radiation Protection Bureau, Canada
Biography
Vinita Chauhan is a Research Scientist at the Consumer and Clinical Radiation Protection Bureau, Health Canada. She has graduated with a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Ottawa and has been employed at Health Canada for the past 12 years. The focus of her research has been to understand the mechanistic basis for adverse health effects associated with exposure to ionizing radiation. Through this work, she gained expertise in genomic and proteomic techniques and has published over 20 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and presented both nationally and internationally. During the past 5 years, she has co-led Health Canada’s science activities in a Genomics Research and Development Initiative, which includes a sub-project to identify transcriptosome changes in human derived cell-lines following exposure to alpha particle radiation.
Abstract
Abstract : Comparative analysis of genomic profiles from human cell lines exposed to alpha particle radiation