Asian Association for Radiation Research

(AARR)

Greetings:

 I am great pleasure to announce to all members of AARR. We had successful and fruitful Asian Congress of Radiation Research (ACRR) and AARR Councilor Meeting at Hiroshima, Japan on Nov. 15^th -17^th 2005.

Since their discovery, Radiation and Radioisotopes, have been studied intensively, and have been importantly utilized in many aspects of our lives such as energy production, industrial processes and medical fields. Unfortunately, the events of WWII in Hiroshima and Nagasaki have led to negative feelings to radiation and its applications. From these facts, Japanese scientists and the Japanese government have recognized the importance of Radiation Research and this science has been strongly advanced in Japan. This year 2005 is the 60^th anniversary of the use of the atomic bombs. Looking around the world today, there are still many regions which appear to be unstable, and Asia is seriously focused on the use of Radiation and Radioisotopes. Because of the historical background, a gathering of many scientists from around Asia at Hiroshima would be a very significant event. The 1^st ACRR in 2005 was organized jointly by the Japanese Association for Radiation Research and the Japanese Radiation Research Society, held with quite many participants in a wide range of fields including physics, chemistry, biology, industrial sciences, medicine and environmental sciences, and successfully closed.  I hope that these AARR and ACRR will be continued forever and the peaceful utilization alone of Radiation and Radioisotopes will be succeeded around all over Asia and in the world.

         　　　    　　　　　      Dr. Takeo Ohnishi; 1^st President of AARR
November 17^th 2005

Membership; Councilors: maximum 10 members from each region

Further membership is welcome.

Japan:

1. T. Ohnishi (Biology); 2. S. Hoshi (Physics); 3. N. Sugiura (Health); 4. Y. Katsumura (Chemistry) 5. K. Ono (Medicine); 6. Y.Shimada (Biology); 7. K. Kamiya (Basic Medicine)

India:

1. K. P. Mishra (Free Radical Biology and Radiotherapy); 2. P. K. Goyal (Radiation Protection and Cancer Biology); 3. R. N. Sharan (DNA Damage and Repair).

China:

1. Pingkuen Zhou (Radiation Risk, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine); 2. Side Yao (Radiation Biology, Radiation Chemistry); 3. Xiaohua Chen (Radiation Medicine); 4. Jingsheng Cheng (Radiological Protection); 5. Guozheng Guo (Radiation Medicine); 6. Su Xu, (Radiological Protection).

Korea:

1. Chong-soon Kim (Nuclear Medicine); 2. Jae-ki Lee (Health Physics/Radiation Protection); 3. Yeon-sook Yun (Immunology, Laboratory of Immunology); 4. Joo-ho Whang (Radioactive waste); 5. Seong-yul Yoo (Radiation Oncology); 6.　Eun Kyung Choi (Radiation Oncology）.

Thailand:

1. Dr. Chowunchun PRAPUNSRI (Neutron and Radiation Technology).

Indonesia:

1. Cholid Badri (Radiotherapy Medicine).

Kazakhstan:

1. Z. S. Zhumadilov (Environmental Radiation and Medicine).

Singapore:

1. Prakash Hande (Radiation Biology).

Iran:

1. S.M.R. Aghamiri (Radiation Biology).

Vietnam:

1. Tran Huu Phat (Atomic Energy).

Rule Book of AARR;

1.   President, vice-president, secretary election:

They are elected from councilors at 1^st AARR Councilor Meeting by new councilors elected from each region.  Mail voting by absent councilors is not permissive.  The term of them is 4 years after the AARR Councilor Meeting to the next AARR Councilor Meeting held at next ACRR.  Additional 4 years of the term are permissive, but not more 4 years (maximum 8 years).

2.   President election of the next ACRR:

The next ACRR region should be elected at AARR Councilor Meeting.  The president of the ACRR should be elected by the councilors of the region which promote the ACRR.

3.  Budget:

           Each region has to pay the budget every year.  Annual payment is 100 US$/1 councilor.  The number of councilors is limited maximum 10.  The budget should be used as (1) financial support for young scientists as young scientist award and (2) value of Asian Award of AARR.  The payment should be reported to AARR Councilor Meeting by the　president.

4.  Award election:

One candidate per each field will be proposed from each country’s Association or councilors.  Finally the winner will be decided at AARR Councilor Meeting by e-mail.  All winners have to give a lecture at ACRR. The winner can get just a document and/or cheep medal without money.  They will be prepared from membership fee of AARR councilors by the president. 
(1) AARR Young Scientist Awards for 5 person (Biology, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Others)
(2) AARR Awards for 3 person (Biology, Medicine, Others)

AARR Award;
　　　One candidate per each field will be recommended from each country’s Association or each councilor.AARR councilors will elect AARR Awards by e-mail before 　　ACRR. Eeach winner have to give a lecture at ACRR. Each winner can get just the document and/or the cheep medal without money.　They will be prepared from　membership fee of AARR councilors and the AARR president.
　　　(1) AARR Young Scientist Awards (under 40 years old) for 5 person (Biology, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Others)　　　Award document
　　　(2) AARR Awards for 3 person (Biology, Medicine, Others)　　　Award document

History of AARR;

1. 1^st AARR Councilor Meeting was held on Nov. 15^th, 2005 at ANA Hotel, Hiroshima (Japan).

1^st President; Dr. Takeo Ohnishi (Japan): 1^st Vice-Presidents; Dr. K. P. Mishra (India), Dr. Su Xu (China) and Dr. Seong-yul Yoo (Korea): Secretary; Dr. Sentaro Takahashi (Japan): The 1^st Chairman of Asian Award Election Committee; Dr. Seiji Hoshi (Japan).

Asian Congress of Radiation Research (ACRR);

1. 1^st ACHO (President, Dr. Kenji Kamiya) was held on Nov. 16^th -17^th, 2005 at Hiroshima International Conference Center, Hiroshima (Japan).

Journals;

Journal of Radiation Research (The Japan Radiation Research Society) http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jrr

Japanese Journal of Health Physics (Japan Health Physics Society) http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jhps/e/journal/journal.html

Japanese Journal of Medical Physics (Japanese Society of Medical Physics) http://www.jsmp.org/index.html

Journal of Nuclear and Radiochemical Sciences (The Japanese Society of Nuclear and Radiochemical Sciences) http://www.radiochem.org/publ-e.html

Radiation Medicine (Japan Radiological Society, Inc.) http://www.nv-med.com/rm/

The Journal of the Korean Association for Radiation Protection (http://www.karp.or.kr/eeducation/journal/index.php)

Indian Journal of Radiation Research (mishra_kaushala@rediffmail.com)

Links;

http://www.iarr.info/ (International Association for Radiation Research)

http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jrr/ (The Japan Radiation Research Society)

http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jhps/index_e.html (Japan Health Physics Society)

http://www.jsmp.org/English-edition/index-en.html (Japanese Society of Medical Physics)

http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jnrs/index.html (The Japanese Society of Nuclear and Radiochemical Sciences)

http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jsrc/ (Japanese Society of Radiation Chemistry)

http://space.fujita-hu.ac.jp/JASRR/index.html (Japanese Association of Space Radiation Research)

http://www.radiology.or.jp/english/index.html (Japan Radiological Society, Inc.)

http://www.karp.or.kr (The Korean Association for Radiation Protection)

What’ New?

1. 2^nd AARR Council Meeting will be held at San Francisco, USA in 2007 during International Congress of Radiation Research.

2. 2^nd ACRR will be held at Soul (Korea) in 2009.

Executive member of AARR; 2005-2009

1^st President; Dr. Takeo Ohnishi (Japan): 1^st Vice-Presidents; Dr. K. P. Mishra (India), Dr. Su Xu (China) and Dr. Seong-yul Yoo (Korea): Secretary; Dr. Sentaro Takahashi (Japan): The 1^st Chairman of Asian Award Committee; Dr. Seiji Hoshi (Japan).

AARR Office;

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Secretary of AARR;　Dr. Yoshiya SHIMADA, National Institute of Radiological Sciences. Anagawa 4-9-1, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, 263-8555, Japan;Tel, +81-443-206-322; Fax, +81-43-206-4138; e-mail, y_shimada@nirs.go.jp
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Payment of Membership Fee Download Microsoft Word file or Adobe PDF file

AARR Young Scientist Award Download Microsoft Word file or Adobe PDF file

AARR Award Download Microsoft Word file or Adobe PDF file

Minutes of 1^st AARR Councilor Meeting Download Microsoft Word file or Adobe PDF file

Minutes of 2 ^st AARR Councilor Meeting Download Microsoft Word file or Adobe PDF file