Search relates to :	Action A (classic collaboration research projects)
Looking for :	a partner (for my project)
Title :	Mrs. Assoc. Prof. Dr.
Name :	Galina Racheva
Country :	Bulgaria, Sofia
Institute name :	Military Medical Academy - Sofia
Department / section :	Laboratory of radiation protection and radiobiology
E-mail :	galina_ra4eva@abv.bg
Telephone :	+359887398913
Web address :	http://www.vma.bg/bg/#
My expertise / skills :	Working in the cytogenetic field concerning to genetic disposal of different types of oncology diseases. I nave used methods such as dicentric method, CBMN assay,PCR,RT-PCR, cell culturing and harvest of blood samples and stem cells, radiation therapies, dosimetry methods, SDS gel electrophoresis, mitochondrial test of toxicity, colonogenic assay, commet assay, micronucleus assay, karyotyping, immunoblotting, ELISA, tissue and cells cryopreservation; I have been attended to research scholarship in Cytogenetic laboratory, Department of Academic Hematology, Royal Free Hospital & UCL Medical School, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, UK for 6 months (2007), Training felowship (IAEA): Regional training course on first medical response to a nuclear or radiological emergency (2012), Advance course of radiation epidemiology and dosimetry for duration of 1 month in European Network of Excellence and “Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen” (2013), Germany, multiple Bulgarin and international congresses and conferences.
Disciplines the partner(s) should work on :	Human Genetics Public Health and Environmental Health Quantitative genetics
Keywords :	radiobiology, human health, genetics, cellular genetic, dose assesment, cancer, oncology, biological dosimetry;
Project description :	We are looking for a partner to join our research project of dose assesment of oncology patients. The challenge for the radiobiologists is to extend the scope of applications of biological dosimetry methods to analyze the dose obtained by the individuals, such as patients and personnel, in radiation oncology, nuclear medicine and diagnostic and interventional radiology. Low doses IR, received for a long time (accumulative dose) could cause different chemical and biological effects in cells, tissues and organs after a long time. The detection and assessment of the absorbed doses in onco-hematology and oncology patients after radiotherapy, PET-scan,some radionuclides for therapy and diagnostic, chemotherapy, etc. will support the therapeutic and diagnostic process by eventually early over received dose detection. The early assessment of the over received dose could help to improve the scheme of therapy and to reduce the risk of stochastic effects. The aim the project is to introduce as a routine method of diagnosis the gold standard methods such as dicentric and CBMN formation assay for dose assesment and to research or develop new, inovative methods for dose analysis. We need a partner to optimize the mentioned methods, and colaboartion trainings of the new, inovative methods of analysis used by both partners.
Networking opportunities :	We are going to attend in some Bulgaian conferences such as Congress of Prevantive Medecine, Conference of Radiology and eventually in the Seventh International Conference on Radiation in Various Fields of Research (RAD 2019; www.rad2019.rad-conference.org ), etc.