Professor Paolo Vineis was appointed as a member in April 2005. He is
an M.D. and an epidemiologist. He has been Associate Professor of Biostatistics
at the University of Torino, Italy. Now he is Professor of Environmental
Epidemiology at Imperial College London, and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology
at Columbia University (New York). He has been President of the Italian
Association of Epidemiology, and member of the Scientific Council of the
International Agency for Research on Cancer. Since 1992 he has coordinated
the Turin section of the large EPIC study, a prospective study on diet
and cancer. His main fields of research are in molecular epidemiology,
in particular projects on the effects of air pollution and environmental
tobacco smoke nested within EPIC, studies on the formation of haemoglobin
and DNA adducts in relation to tobacco smoking, studies on gene-environment
interactions, and on antioxidants and antimutagens in fruits and vegetables.
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