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Korea Society of Radiation
Bioscience consists of researchers and scholars
in both medicine and non-medicine areas. Medicine
areas include radiation oncology, nuclear medicine,
radiation emergency diagnosis, pathology, and diagnostics.
Non-medicine areas include biology in universities
and institutes, areas that use radiation, molecular
biology, nuclear power safety, and other areas that
use radiation and study the biological effect for
peaceful use of nuclear power or for use in medical
biology.
The Society’s international counterparts include
The Radiation Research Society of the U.S., The
Japan Radiation Research Society, and Japan Health
Physics Society.
KSRB brings together academic activities of all
involved in the medical biology research areas through
related societies and associations such as The Korean
Society for Therapeutic Radiology & Oncology,
The Korean Society of Nuclear Medicine, Korean Cancer
Association, The Korean Association for Radiation
Protection, The Korean Society of Medical Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology, and Korean Nuclear Society.
Over the past decade, biological research of radiation
has used mid-to-long term nuclear power research
as its main research support program. Recently,
there has been an increase in the number of research
support programs from not only Ministry of Science
and Technology but also Ministry of Health and Welfare
and Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Energy that
meet the needs of purpose-specific research and
development. Therefore, biological research of radiation
has been active with the backing of research support
from a variety of routes. In addition, the field
has been participating in and conducting research
for MOST’s nuclear power promotion comprehensive
plan, one of the least developed areas of nuclear
power use.
There has been no entity that led the participation
in the research systems. Instead, it has been done
on an institute basis or even individual basis,
resulting in a wide gap of performances depending
on individual capacity. The recent trend is heading
towards managing support systematically with enlarged
research support system bases. This is where the
reason KSRB must play a central role.
As a result, KSRB could provide and opportunity
to train individual researchers who do not have
easy access to research support systems and give
them concentrated support.
Current members have an active role to play in order
to broaden the basis of radiation bio-science researchers
by finding qualified individual researchers and
linking them to the Society, thereby expanding the
foundation on which to build the Society’s infrastructure
as an academic group and developing its functions
and scope of work. |
