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Since its establishment in 1962, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, as an attached to School of Medicine (later to Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences) has committed to perform education and research activities. In 2012, we celebrated its 50th anniversary. During this 50 year-period, we have expanded our research activities from the late effect of atomic bomb on atomic bomb survivors in Nagasaki to international Hibakusha medicine and molecular epidemiology at Chernobyl and Semipalatinsk. Furthermore, after Fukushima nuclear plant crisis, we have been contributing radiation-risk communication/management. In response to the high social needs for study on radiation risk communication, our Institute becomes to be directly attached to Nagasaki University as of April 1st, 2013.
This Institute has three main Units of “Social Medicine Unit”, “Radiation Life Science Unit” and “Atomic Bomb Disease and Hibakusha Medicine Unit” (three departments in each) attached with “Division of Scientific Data Registry”.
The aims of our research are as follows;- (1) to pursue radiation late effect research and Habakusha’s medical care including development of new treatment modalities; (2) to enhance the field of radiation social medicine to apply our experience on Atomic Bombing in Nagasaki to epidemiological study and Hibakusha’s medical care in worldwide radiation–exposed areas; and (3) to expand basic research on radiation effects from individual and cellular levels to molecular and gene levels. In addition, it is also continued to collect the data and materials from Atomic Bomb victims.
Our research activities for last decades were highly valued in forms of adoption of 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program “International Consortium for Medical Care of Hibakusha and Radiation Life Science” (2001 to 2005) and Global COE Program of “Global Strategic Center for Radiation Health Risk Control” (2006 to 2011).
We will continue to provide our unique and valuable Hibakusha’s materials and information as a common inheritance to all human beings, and simultaneously to do best with all of our staff to establish the measures for radiation protection in medicine and contribute survival and improvement of welfare of human being in 21st century.
April, 2013
The director
Yuji Nagayama |
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| Fifty years Memorial Monumnet of Atomic
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