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Committee Biographies
Pages 52-54

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... She authored the Massachusetts LLRW management plan, acclaimed by state government policy makers and national LLRW publications. As a State Senator for Massachusetts, she chaired the Leg~slature's Committee on Natural Resources and Agriculture and authored key environmental laws including the Solid Waste Management Act, State "Superfund" Law, Low-Leve]
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From page 53...
... , including the NSF's Advisory Panel for its Decision and Risk Management Science Program and the NRC's Committee on Risk Perception and Risk Communication. STUDY DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY Isaf Al-Nabuisi, Ph.D., assumed the role of study director for the LLRW study in the Board on Radiation Effects Research (BRER)
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... Her research interests include molecular mechanisms of DNA damage and repair, cytogenetic techniques, molecular mechanisms of tumor radioresponsiveness, the influence of hypoxic cells on the outcome of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and the biological function of sigma receptors as potential biomarkers of tumor-cell proliferation. She is a member of the Radiation Research Society, the American Association for Cancer Research, the Health Physics Society, and Women in Cancer Research.
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