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| The 2nd Workshop of the Global Strategic Center for Radiation
Health Risk Control. |
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International
Workshop on Radiation Health Effects Research:
from basic to clinical studies on Chernobyl
and other radiation-related issues, cooperation
between Nagasaki University GCOE Program
and ISTC
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| December 1 and 2, 2008
Pompe Hall at Nagasaki University School of Medicine
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The aim of the International
Workshop in Nagasaki is to strengthen academic
cooperation between Japan and the former
USSR states focusing on Radiation Health
and Life Science Research from basic, epidemiological
to clinical fields and, hopefully, to reach
mutual understanding and agreement on future
collaborative studies on Radiation Health
Risk Control.
Both Japan and the former USSR have similar
serious negative legacies, such as, respectively,
Atomic bomb suffering and nuclear accidents,
leading to enormous health impacts on the
public through unnecessary exposure to ionizing
radiation. Radiation effects on human beings
are always complex yet could be categorized
into dichotomy groups: acute and chronic effects,
high and low dose effects, and external and
internal exposures. The international cooperative
projects are essentially needed to solve problems
in emergency radiation medicine and identify
potential impacts of low dose and low-dose
rate radiation as well as to elaborate models
aimed at understanding fine molecular mechanisms
of radiation-induced diseases including the
new discovery of “radiation signatures” at
the level of human body, tissue, cell and
gene. Finally, based on “Regulatory
Sciences” approaches, risk communication
is really desired to be established through
the international cooperation for maintaining
healthy life and safeguard in the realities
of Nuclear age of the 21st century.
To overcome the limitations of cooperative
projects confined to our own Nagasaki University
Global COE (Center of Excellence) program,
the successfully achieved international consortium
will be engaged for this joint workshop with
a sponsorship of ISTC. The key counterparts
are Medical Radiological Research Center of
Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Obninsk,
Russia and Belarusian Medical Academy of Postgraduate
Education, Minsk, Belarus because of their
profound experience and knowledge of Chernobyl
Health Impact data and materials. In Japan,
a domestic consortium of radiation research
centers includes, besides Nagasaki University,
Hiroshima University, Radiation Effects Research
Foundation and National Institute of Radiological
Sciences. The joint program will strengthen
and enhance current research efforts and open
a new window of collaboration between Japan
and the former USSR in the field of radiation
biology, radiation medicine and radiation
safety.
The workshop has three cornerstones: basic,
epidemiological and clinical, which are the
mainstreams of our future collaboration and
academic achievements. We will have a special
key lecture on radiation biology by a representative
of University of Singapore, and based on fundamental
research progress in radiation biology and
radiation medicine, many relevant topics will
be presented and followed by extensive open
discussions. Additionally, molecular pathology
and epidemiology of various radiation-associated
problems will be taken up referring the data
and tissue banks established around Chernobyl
and in Nagasaki. As it is now well realized
that internal exposure to ionizing radiation
and external irradiation are equally important
to understand their detrimental health impact,
modern concepts of countermeasures and preventive
measures against radiological accident and
nuclear disaster will be considered. At the
end, our workshop will not only improve understanding
of radiation health effects but also will
serve to encourage/educate young researchers
to challenge difficult tasks of co-existence
of radiation and humankind.
The official language is English. Presentation
slides will be distributed during or immediately
after the workshop as a PDF file and hardcopy
printouts for further broader examination
and to facilitate communications between the
participants. |
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