Pavel Vodicka graduated at the Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague and in 1986 obtained Ph.D. in biochemistry. He worked as postdoctoral fellow at the Finnish Inst. Occupat. Health, Helsinki, Finland (1987-1990) and as visiting scientist at Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden (1990-1993). Since 2002 he heads the Dept. Molec. Biol. Cancer, Inst. Exper. Medicine, Acad. Sci., Prague, Czech Republic. Pavel Vodicka has published more than 130 (total IF 552.4, 2650 citations a HI 31) articles. Since 2004, his main research topics are focused on the DNA and chromosomal damage and DNA repair functional tests in humans and on transient biomarkers in the onset of gastrointestinal cancers. In 2012 he edited the Special Issue in Mutagenesis (http://mutage.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/2. toc), entitled Colorectal Cancer-Current Insights into Susceptibility Pavel Vodicka graduated at the Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague and in 1986 obtained Ph.D. in biochemistry. He worked as postdoctoral fellow at the Finnish Inst. Occupat. Health, Helsinki, Finland (1987-1990) and as visiting scientist at Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden (1990-1993). Since 2002 he heads the Dept. Molec. Biol. Cancer, Inst. Exper. Medicine, Acad. Sci., Prague, Czech Republic. Pavel Vodicka has published more than 130 (total IF 552.4, 2650 citations a HI 31) articles. Since 2004, his main research topics are focused on the DNA and chromosomal damage and DNA repair functional tests in humans and on transient biomarkers in the onset of gastrointestinal cancers. In 2012 he edited the Special Issue in Mutagenesis (http://mutage.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/2. toc), entitled Colorectal Cancer-Current Insights into Susceptibility

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