Italian National Institute of Health
ISS is the leading scientific technical body of the Italian Public National Health Service. Its mission is the promotion and safeguard of national and international public health through research, surveillance, regulation, control, prevention, communication, counseling and training activities.
Six large departments are dedicated to major health issues (neuroscience; cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders, and ageing; infectious diseases; oncology and molecular medicine; environment and health food safety; veterinary public health) complemented by 16 national centres and 5 Technical scientific Services. Among them, the National Centre for Innovative Technologies in Public Health (TISP), and the Core facilities (FAST); members of both of them participate to the project.
The TISP’s mission promotes “the improvement of the public health through research, development, optimization and evaluation of innovative technologies, using multidisciplinary skills”. The FAST manages high-cost technologies, shared within the Institute in order to promote common access of scientists, inside and outside ISS; it is involved in scientific research and technical-scientific training, design and development of methods and technologies; data processing and support to the strategic management of ISS scientific equipment.
Through the members of the above units, ISS is a reference point in different national and European initiatives related to the Health and ionizing radiation; among them, the CONCERT program focused on radioprotection research, within the Horizon Europe – EURATOM framework and the research platforms: MELODI (multidisciplinary research on low-level dose risk), EURAMED (radioprotection in clinical context) and EURADOS (research in the ionizing radiation dosimetry).