As of 26 February 2015

Nobuyuki Hamada, Ph.D.

Nobuyuki Hamada was born in Japan in 1976 and received a B.Sc. in radiological sciences from Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences in 1999. He earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences from Nagasaki University in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He was also a visiting Ph.D. student at the Gray Cancer Institute (Northwood, UK) in April 2003-October 2003. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences and in Tohoku University Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, and a COE Associate Professor in Gunma University

Graduate School of Medicine. In April 2010, he joined the Radiation Safety Research Center in the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) as a Research Scientist. For 16+ years, he has conducted a series of radiobiological studies. His past projects include nontargeted effects and heavy-ion effects. His ongoing projects aim to elucidate the radiation response of primary normal human lens epithelial cells and to establish a mouse model system allowing a life-long chase of damaged cells. He has also been involved in several health physics studies. He has authored or coauthored 80 papers in peer-reviewed international journals since 2001, which have gained over 1600 citations and a total impact factor of over 190. He is a recipient of the 2013 Michael Fry Research Award of the U.S. Radiation Research Society (RRS), and has received 15 awards from Japan Radiation Research Society (JRRS), Japan Health Physics Society (JHPS), Japanese Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (JASTRO), or other Japanese societies since 2006. He joined ICRP in March 2014 to serve as the ICRP Assistant Scientific Secretary and an Associate Editor for Annals of the ICRP. Since 2013, he has been a member of Expert Group on Radiation Protection Science (EGRPS) for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development/Nuclear Energy Agency/Nuclear Energy Agency/Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Heath (OECD/NEA/CRPPH), and a member of Expert Committee on Radiation Protection of the Ocular Lens for Japan Health Physics Society (JHPS). Also, since 2014, he has served as a Consultant for the Scientific Committee (SC) 1-23 “Guidance on Radiation Dose Limits for the Lens of the Eye” in the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP).