Federal Medical-Biological Agency of Russia. Federal State Research Institution.

Urals Research Center For Radiation Medicine

Research Priorities

1. Medical examination, treatment and rehabilitation of the population exposed to radiation at the Techa riverside villages and in the territory of the Eastern Urals Radioactive Trace and their offspring.
   • Clinical Department
   • Genetic Consultation
   • Enviromental Pathopsychology Laboratory
2. Health evaluation and determination of causal relationship between diseases, disability, death and radiation.
   • Expert Council
3. Research of late health consequences in population exposed to radiation including risk assessment of genetic and cancer effects.
   • Epidemiology Laboratory
   • Clinical Physiology Laboratory
   • Genetic Consultation
4. Dynamic assessment of health status of radiation-exposed people and their offspring
   • Clinical Department
   • Clinical Physiology Laboratory
5. Research of mental health and socio-psychological problems of population exposed to radiation.
   • Environmental Pathopsychology Laboratory
6. Research of pathophysiological mechanisms of deterministic effects caused by chronic radiation exposure to human body.
   • Clinical Physiology Laboratory
7. Research of consistent patterns in the radiation situation and intake of radionuclides with food.
   • Department of Environmental Studies
8. Retrospective biological indication and biological dosimetry of chronic radiation exposure.
   • Clinical Physiology Laboratory
   • Biophysics Laboratory
9. Reconstruction of radiation doses in population of the Urals region.
   • Biophysics Laboratory
10. Research of influence of anthropogenic factors (including radiation) on biological systems.
    • Experimental Department
11. Design and creation of medical, dosimetric and radiation-hygienic data bases and data banks.
    • Urals Regional Center for the National Radiation-Epidemiology Registry
    • Biophysics Laboratory
    • Epidemiology Laboratory
    • Department of Environmental Studies
    • Clinical Physiology Laboratory
    • Clinical Department
12. Training of students of Chelyabinsk State University (radiobiology, environmental protection, radiation medicine, genetics, etc.).
    • Radiation Biology Sub-Faculty
13. Public communication on consequences of radiation accidents.