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Database of Global Research Activity (VanDOGRA)
There is a significant amount of funded research currently ongoing worldwide on
the environmental and human health effects of vanadium compounds. In order to provide
interested stakeholders with up to date information on the scope of global research
in progress, and to identify scientists currently active in relevant fields, the
Institute of Environment and Health (IEH) has developed this web-based database
of research activities (VanDOGRA). Development of VanDogra is supported by the Vanadium
Safety Readiness (VSR) programme and the database is hosted by Vanitec (Vanadium
International Technical Committee).
What is VanDOGRA
VanDOGRA is a fully searchable inventory of current research activities relating
to the potential environmental and health effects of, and methods of controlling
and treating, exposure to vanadium compounds. As such, its scope includes:
- Estimation of the contributions of environmental and occupational vanadium exposure
to human health, disease and dysfunction;
- Investigation of the impact of vanadium exposure on environmental-ecotoxicological
effects;
- Investigation of the physiological and biochemical mechanisms (including toxicokinetic
considerations);
- Assessment of the influence of factors, such as age, nutritional deficiencies, pre-existing
disease and genetics, that influence individual susceptibility to vanadium;
- Investigation of the roles and mechanisms of vanadium toxicity;
- Measurement and/or modelling of occupational or environmental exposure;
- Identification of existing and novel biomarkers of exposure or adverse effects;
and
- Development and implementation of new medical approaches to the treatment of excessive
vanadium exposure.
VanDOGRA will thus provide an effective and powerful tool for identifying current,
and recently completed, research activities and the key workers in relevant fields.
As such, it should be of value to stakeholders and researchers, providing a means
of minimizing the risk of duplication of effort, and over time should facilitate
identification of changing patterns of research activity, gaps in programmes, opportunities
for collaboration, and emerging areas of concern.
Using VanDOGRA
There are a number of ways to interact with VanDOGRA:
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