• ISBN13: 9780854042890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Chemistry
• Publisher: Royal Society of Che
• Publisher Imprint: RSC
• Publication Date: August 6, 2007
• Pages: 341
• Original Price: GBP 169.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 708 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Radiation

About the Book In an era of global warming, knowledge of the effects of solar radiation on humans is of great importance and the latest discoveries in environmental photobiology are presented in this book. Each chapter provides an "historical" description of the phenomenology followed by the description of the state-of-the-art. Key topics include: Damages from acute versus chronic sun exposure; Skin Color, Melanin, Race/Ethnicity and UV-Induced DNA Damage; Genetic background and UV-induced skin cancer and DNA repair therapy. This is an indispensable resource for students and professionals working in fields relating to photochemistry, environmental science, biochemistry and biotechnology.

Paolo U. Giacomoni received a Laurea in Atomic Physics from the University of Milano and a Ph. D. in Biochemistry from the University of Paris. He was a teacher at the University of Paris, and was a fellow scientist at University of California, San Diego, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and at the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum in Heidelberg. He is Executive Director-R&D, at Clinique Laboratories, Inc. in Melville, N.Y He discovered that UV radiation elicits heat shock response and impairs energy metabolism in the epidermis. He worked on the pro-oxidative behavior of UVA radiation and discovered that DNA damage by UVA requires Oxygen and transition metals. As consequence, he proposed the now widely accepted micro-inflammatory model of skin aging and his laboratory was one of the twelve laboratories, which created the European Union-sponsored Network on Molecular Gerontology. He was among the founders of the European Society for Photobiology and was elected Secretary of the Society for two successive two-year terms.