Orenburg state university

Yekaterina Royba: Khabarovsk — Orenburg — Horishima — Paris — New York

Yekaterina Royba, an OSU graduate, is currently designing the new methods of rapid biodosimentry in New York. This technology serves for determining the radiation dose received by a person in cases of an atomic explosion or a terrorist attack.

Yekaterina started her career from taking part in Japanese government's exchange program. One and a half year later she received an invitation to continue her PhD study in the Japanese laboratory she used to work at. During those four years Yekaterina had been working on her thesis under Professor Shinya Matsuura in Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine (Hiroshima University). The thesis of the young scientist focuses on the reasons why cells of different people react differently on the same dose of radiation.

Yekaterina spent her last PhD year in Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute (Paris) in the laboratory of Michel Bourguignon, testing his theory on radiosensitivity.

After passing her viva in 2017 she became an expert in molecular-genetic mechanisms of repairing DNA damage, and got employed by the Center for Radiological Research of Radiational Oncology department, Columbia University (New York).

Yekaterina uses her free time as productively as her working hours, travelling and reading. Recently she swam with sharks in the open water, climbed a volcano and won a medal in a marathon.

In her future Yekaterina Royba plans to continue her research about the effect of nucleotide polymorphism on radio sensitivity. In her view, it's necessary to create a test which may timely determine radiosensitive people.