November

The International Seminar on Problems of “Modern Chemical Technologies Application in Biomedicine and Health Protection” in Bulan-Sogotu village, Kyrgyz Republic, 10-13 November 2008. The Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University organized the event where 45 scientists from Kyrgyzstan, Belorussia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Germany participated.

The following meetings were held:

and applied health protection.

Possibilities of their application in medical purposes

The International Advisory Group (IAG) held its third meeting of 2008 in Moscow on 20 and 21 November 2008 at the I. M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy (MMA). On 20 November an information scientific exchange day “Ensuring national systems of biological safety: practices, concepts, programmes” was held at the MMA’s Research Scientific institute of Pharmacy for more than 60 participants and on 21 November the third formal meeting of the IAG members in 2008 was held at the Scientific Research Center of the MMA. Organizers of the scientific seminar are:I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy, International Council for the Life Sciences, Global Partnership Program, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (Canada), Non Commercial Partnership “Center of Modern Medical Technology” TEMPO, International Science and Technology Center, International Advisory Group on Biosafety and Biosecurity (IAG).

Session 1. Improving national and international legislation, conceptions and approaches in developing programs for ensuring biological safety and security.

, and a World Health Organization project on biorisk management.

Session 2. Identifying and Reducing Biological Risks

National Systems for Biosecurity and Biosafety must be able to address a full spectrum of biological risks, from naturally occurring diseases to laboratory accidents to deliberate misuse. This session provided specific and general examples of biological risks facing Eurasia and the world.

Session 3. Development and improvement of scientific and methodological approaches to biological safety

The session addressed the following key issues: scientific and methodological approaches to biological safety of human and animals, education and training of personnel and the federal authorities to introduce risk management instruments/tools of negative impact of hazardous bio factors on environment, biosphere and technological sphere.

The event brought together for the first time a critical mass of top Russian scientists/institutes active in the field of high intensity laser physics with their European counterparts working on the large scale projects ELI, HiPER and PETAL (1). Close to 50 people attended the event.

The objective of the meetings was to formulate collaborative research objectives and discuss legal and financial mechanisms for their implementation. The participants identified the scope, the partners and possible forms of a future coordination and collaboration. Furthermore, the workshop provided a platform to demonstrate the high level and the important contribution of Russian scientists to extreme light science research and technologies. The results of their research are in many cases complementary to those obtained in the EU countries.

The workshop demonstrated the enormous potential of high power and high intensity lasers for fundamental science, material processing and medicine. This is a very broad and promising area of research, which encompasses all three abovementioned EU projects.

Since the discovery of penicillin in the late 1930’s, a broad range of antibiotics has been developed that are today commonly used for the treatment of bacterial infections in humans and animals. As a result of these discoveries modern medicine has made great progress in treating and preventing infectious outbreaks. However, during the last few decades only a small number of new antibiotics have been released onto the market, while at the same time more and more bacterial infections have emerged that are not only drug-resistant, but also multi-drug resistant. With a fourfold increased world population since the initial discovery by Pasteur and Koch, the risk of pandemic outbreaks has also been multiplied.

The seminar “New trends in infectious diseases” took place in Lyon (France) under the label “EU-French Presidency 2008” and was co-organized by INSERM, ISTC and STCU.

The seminar was divided in 2 parts; a scientific seminar presented the main state-of-the-art results on some infectious diseases and one day was devoted to industrial matchmaking.

The objectives of the Seminar were:

There were about 80 participants, including 15 from ISTC Institutes.

The 46th ISTC Japan Workshop on Cytogenetic Biodosimetry was held at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan, on November 27-28, 2008. It was jointly organized by ISTC, the National Institute of Radiological Sciences (Chiba) and the World Health Organization. Thanks to ISTC travel support, participants from the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Armenia and Kazakhstan took part in this workshop and could exchange with their colleagues not only from Japan, but from many other Asian countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippine, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.

The Conference and Seminar were attended by more than 250 research scientists and representatives of industrial institutions and companies from 35 countries. Participants considered key problems regarding the design of new efficient catalysts and catalytic processes for the development of chemical and energy industry (especially hydrogen). ISTC played a central role in organizing and coordinating the events international participation.

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