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About
This item contains a more detailed description of the project objectives and its participants.
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Project Consortium
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The Consortium comprises two partners:
- The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (Bundesamt fuer Strahlenschutz - BfS), Germany
- The University of Cambridge (UCam), United Kingdom
The team is:
Bernd Grosche, BfS (co-ordinator)
Paul Schofield, UCam
Clemens Adelmann, BfS
Mandy Birschwilks, BfS
Michael Gruenberger, UCam
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Project Description
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The assessment of radiation risks is based on epidemiological studies of radiation-exposed populations, in conjunction with experimental animal studies, and on fundamental information from biophysical, molecular biological and cellular studies. The retrospective analysis of earlier epidemiological and animal studies using information from the latter will be an important resource for modelling and evaluating risk parameters. The project will ascertain the quality of available data and put into effect an easy-to-use database for further exploitation of this information. Thus, a unique on-line archive consisting of invaluable data for further exploitation by the scientific community will be delivered.
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Advisory Board
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Because of the range of specialist knowledge required by the project and the importance of interacting with the community and other stakeholders it is essential to have an Advisory Board of competent scientists who will accompany the project. The Advisory Board (AB) supervise the scientific standards in use and the dissemination of the data of ERA. They will also safeguard the rights of the
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History
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In the middle of the 1980s, the Radiation Protection Programme of the European Commission and the European Late Effects Project Group (EULEP) embarked an initiative to collect and collate data covering all available information on European long-term radiobiological animal studies. The Office of Biological and Environmental Research of the U.S. Department of Energy, and more recently, the Japanese Late Effects Group have started a similar effort to archive the American and Japanese data. These data combined build the International Radiobiological Archives (IRA) which include, in addition to two human cohort studies, nearly all radiation biology studies with animals carried out between 1960 and 1998 in Europe, the US, and Japan, involving a total of more than 300,000 animals. ERA alone includes 122 studies from 19 laboratories.
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