Studies from the Department of Genetics at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal

✍ Scribed by Phillippe Shubik

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 305 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0270-3211
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6866(1996)16:4<199::aid-tcm1>3.0.co;2-d

✦ Synopsis

This issue-Part I (16:4) and Part I1 (16:5)-of Terufogenesis, Carcinogenesis, and Mutagenesis is the first of several that will be devoted to the studies from single departments and laboratories dedicated to the disciplines represented in this journal. The Department of Genetics at the New University of Lisbon (UNL) in Portugal has agreed to provide this volume. In the introductory statement, Professor Jose Rueff has provided an account of this department and of the studies its members are currently undertaking. o 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS, FACULTY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, UNL

The Department of Genetics has been actively developing lines of research in the areas of genetic toxicology, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, and radiogenetics, among others. From this research activity 39 scientific papers have been published since 1992 in international journals. In addition, the Department of Genetics has been collaborating intensively with 12 other laboratories of various universities and research centers in Europe and the United States.

The Department is also actively involved in teaching at both the pregraduate level and the postgraduate level. At the pregraduate level the Department is in charge of the course of genetics for medical students of the Faculty of Medical Sciences. It also receives a number of pregraduate students each year to perform their graduation theses. Five members of the Department performed their research work here for the Ph.D. and two for the M.Sc. Three other members are about to submit their Ph.D. theses.