CERRIE was an independent Committee established by the UK Government in 2001, following concerns about the risks of internal radiation. The Committee operated between October 2001 and October 2004.

Although the Committee was set up and sponsored by two UK Government departments, DEFRA (Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and DH (Department of Health), it operated completely independently of them. Its Final Report was not vetted by any Government agency.


Professor Eric Wright

Eric Wright is Professor of Experimental Haematology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pathology, Dundee University Medical School. He is also chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Association for International Cancer Research and chairman of the Radiation and Cancer Biology Committee of the British Institute of Radiology. He is also a Member of COMARE.

His research interests include the control of haemopoietic stem cells and the mechanisms underlying abnormalities of stem cell function, such as bone marrow failure and leukaemia development. Recent research has been concerned primarily with the effects of ionising radiation and the induction of genomic instability. Currently, research is focussed on how genetic factors influence short-term cellular and molecular responses of cells to radiation stress and injury and how inflammatory-type responses may be implicated in the development of the longer-term pathological changes.

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