Collaborative Research and Shared Equipments

2013 Call for Shared Use and Collaborative Research
2013 Call for
Shared Use and Collaborative
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Effective April 1, 2013, the Atomic Bomb Disease Institute affiliated with the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences was restructured to establish the Atomic Bomb Disease Institute attached to Nagasaki University. Building on this new momentum, we are seeking shared use and/or collaborative research projects, as described below. We hope that you will inform your researchers about this opportunity.

1. Study subjects sought
(A) Priority subjects

(1) Social medicine study (including radiation health risk assessment study, the former Soviet Union
field study, and reconstruction assistance study for Kawauchi Village, Fukushima)

(2) Nuclear radiation life science study(including genome repair and genome informatics)

(3) A-bomb survivor and/or hibakusha healthcare study

(B) Other study subjects
2. Qualifications
Regular staff members at universities or research institutes, graduate school students, or personnel who have equivalent qualifications.

If the project includes radiation operations, the personnel must have been registered at the organization as a radiation operator duly in accordance with laws and regulations. If the project includes gene recombination experiments, the personnel must have been registered at the organization as a gene recombination experiment conductor. If the project relates to clinical study, epidemiology study, human genome study, or human stem cell research, the organization must have finished the ethical review.
3. Study duration
From October 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014
4. Deliverables
(1) Shared Use/Collaborative Research Application Form (Form 1)
(2) Letter of Acceptance from the organization's head (Form 2)

Before submitting the documents, an applicant must contact the coordinator of the
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Application Form (Form1) form201301e.doc form201301e.pdf
Letter of Acceptance (Form2) form201302e.doc form201302e.pdf
5. Deadline

August 30, 2013 (the documents must arrive by this day)
(Applicants may submit via our application coordinator.)

6. Please send your applications to the following address
Administrative Office
Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852−8523 Japan

On the envelope, please write "Application for shared use and/or collaborative research."
7. Adoption
Our governing committee decides adoptions and informs the applicant no later than September 30, 2013.
8. Expenses needed
We bear the expenses, including travel and consumables, which successful applicants will incur for Study Subjects (A) and (B) (no more than 1.5 million Japanese Yen, subject to our governing committee's review).
9. Report
At the end of the study duration, the lead researcher must submit a Report of Development.
Inquiries
Emi Kuroda
Administrative Office
Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Tel:+81-95-819-7157 Fax:+81-95-819-7012
E-mail:kenkyu_med@ml.nagasaki-u.ac.jp