’The Republican Research Centre for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology’

STRUCTURE OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY

RADIATION PROTECTION DEPARTMENT

Head- Victor S. Averin, Doctor of Biology Sciences, Senior Research Officer (more than 120 articles, 2 monographs).
The Department of Radiation Protection is accredited on technical competence in the field of 137Cs identification in foodstuff and human body with use of the mobile laboratory including human-irradiation spectrometer installation and radiometric complex.

Directions of Research:

Estimation and reconstruction of exposure doses;
Scientific provision and improvement of exposure doses monitoring system at the population living in territories contaminated by radionuclides, scientific provision for functioning of the State Dosimetry Registry;
Development of activity on increasing the protection of Belarusian population from the radiation impact during the rehabilitation period of the Chernobyl accident;
Expert activity on problems of radiation protection.

The structure of the department is the following:

The Laboratory of Estimation and Reconstruction of Exposure Doses of Population;
The Laboratory of Radiation Hygiene.

LABORATORY ON ESTIMATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF DOSES

Head -Natalia G. Vlasova, Ph.D., Associate Professor (more than 100 scientific works, 5 joint monographs)

Directions of Research:

Scientific - methodical provision of the Uniform State System on Account and Control of Exposure Doses of Belarus: State Dosimetry Registry;
Estimation of exposure doses at population of Belarus from the basic sources of ionizing irradiation including medical radiodiagnostics, natural sources and the Chernobyl component.

RADIATION HYGIENE LABORATORY

Head - Anatoly M. Skryabin, PhD (150 scientific works and 5 joint monographs).

Research Directions:

Revealing the regularities of formation of individual internal exposure doses of the Chernobyl-affected population;
Reconstruction of the individualized accumulated internal exposure doses of the Chernobyl-affected population;
Studying of the impact of the protection measures on decreasing the internal exposure doses taking into account the regional peculiarities;
Elaboration of recommendations of the existing complex of protection measures aiming to optimize the radiation protection of the population during the rehabilitation period of the Chernobyl accident.

EPIDEMIOLOGY LABORATORY

Head -Elena Y.Sosnovskaya, Ph.D. (more than 60 scientific works, including 1 monograph).

Directions of Research:

Radiation-epidemiological analysis of risk of oncological and non-oncological diseases development at the Chernobyl-affected population;
Analysis and assessment of health status of the Chernobyl-affected population;
Providing monitoring of incidence by most significant classes of diseases probably caused by the consequences of the Chernobyl accident;
Elaborations of proposals on optimization of medical provision of the affected population.

CLINICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY

Head-Eldar A.Nadyrov, PhD

Research Directions:

Estimation of clinical disorders appearing as a result of negative environmental factors impact, including radiation factor;
Formation of approaches to development of new methods of diagnostic, therapy and prevention of diseases connected with long-term impact of radiation and other man-caused factors;
Development of methodology on performing screening examinations of population directed on revealing of basic diseases (cardiovascular, endocrine, metabolism diseases) at early stages.

MOLECULAR GENETICS LABORATORY

Head - Arcady E. Silin, Ph.D (more than 40 scientific works and 1 monograph);

Research Directions:

Research of connection of mutational events in somatic cells of the body with occurrence of various pathologies, including oncological diseases;
Development and implementation of new molecular-genetic methods of estimation of predisposition to various oncological diseases including osteoporosis and cardiovascular diseases;
Development and implementation of efficiency estimation methods of treatment of oncological and other diseases burdened by gene mutations.