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Dr. Carty received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Biochemistry
at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 1986. He then
obtained a Fogarty International fellowship to carry out post-doctoral
research at the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, MD, in the
area of DNA replication in mammalian cells. From 1991, at the
Department of Environmental Health at the University of Cincinnati
Medical School, Dr. Carty carried out research on cellular responses to
exposure to agents that damage DNA, especially ultraviolet light, a
major cause of skin cancer.
Dr. Carty took up a position as a College
Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry at the National University
of Ireland, Galway in 2000. His research group focuses on how the loss
of genome stability contributes to cancer development, and on the
molecular responses of human cells to DNA damaging agents, for example
cisplatin, used in cancer therapy. This research is part of a
significant initiative in basic cancer research in the Department of
Biochemistry, and in the National Centre for Biomedical Engineering
Science at NUI, Galway.
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