Coordination Of Research Activities Research Articles

Abstract A124: NICRAT: The institute pioneering a new approach to cancer research and treatment in sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract Background: Cancer is a major public health challenge in several sub-Saharan African countries, and some of these nations have established their national cancer institutes as a focal point to address this threat. Similarly, the Nigerian government founded the National Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (NICRAT) in 2017. The purpose of this report is to provide an understanding of the opportunities in establishing a new cancer institute in Nigeria, the most populous Black country in the world and the most populous country in Africa. We reviewed the history, mission and strategy of the National Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (NICRAT). Methods: The data sources reviewed were publications in professional journals, government reports, news articles, and the NICRAT website. Results: Some of the concerns that justified the establishment and initiation of a national cancer institute in Nigeria include the lack of a coordinated effort to study and combat the disease in Nigeria. The NICRAT was created to centralize cancer research efforts, provide funding for cancer research, and coordinate research activities across the country. These institutes are a science-based governmental institutions dedicated to cancer research, prevention, and treatment. Accordingly, the institution will promote the fight against cancer, providing a centralized focus for cancer research and treatment efforts, and facilitating collaboration between researchers, healthcare providers, and patients, as well as guidance for cancer policy formulation and implementation for decision-makers. Modelled on the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), the NICRAT has institutionalised Nigeria’s capacity to coordinate research efforts to support the use of evidence-based practices in designated Cancer Centers to reduce the impact of cancer. The NICRAT is also the focal point for the implementation of the National Cancer Control Plan (NCCP), and will coordinate the National System of Cancer Registries and the Cancer Health Fund. Discussion: Cancer institutes in sub-Saharan Africa are currently in early stages of evolution. Over the next 5 years, NICRAT’s mission is to work in partnership with other arms of Government and partners to continue its efforts in advancing cancer research, prevention, and treatment. The NICRAT will also focus on improving cancer care delivery and access to care, enhancing cancer prevention and education efforts, and strengthening collaborations with international partners to address the cancer challenge. How successful the institute becomes in its mission will be determined by its capacity to develop the right partnerships, including with the private sector, adopting innovative approaches, and mobilising adequate resources. Building a national cancer institute requires strong commitment, planning and action. The experience of setting up the NICRAT can inform similar efforts in other African countries. Citation Format: Sani A. Malami, Usman M. Aliyu, Uchechukwu E. Nwokwu, Waziri U. Mohammed. NICRAT: The institute pioneering a new approach to cancer research and treatment in sub-Saharan Africa [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 16th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; 2023 Sep 29-Oct 2;Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2023;32(12 Suppl):Abstract nr A124.

NFDI4Health – Task Force COVID-19

COVID-19 posed one of the greatest challenges to individuals and societies worldwide in recent decades. Public health research, epidemiological and clinical studies were essential to track the spread of SARS-CoV-2 responsible for the pandemic and its variants, to better understand the consequences for health and social life, and to identify effective treatment and vaccination methods. Such studies provided policy makers, industry, health care providers, and society with an empirical basis for containing and managing the pandemic and for making decisions that were based on the most recent data. Therefore, the COVID-19 pandemic excellently illustrates the relevance of data sharing and the importance of providing an effective infrastructure. From the researchers’ perspective, there were significant challenges associated with this request. In a very short time, numerous projects, studies, and networks had emerged to investigate the pandemic, making it increasingly difficult to maintain an overview. Such an overview would have been essential to coordinate research activities, avoid unplanned duplication of research, and to implement studies in a harmonized manner.

ROBDEKON – competence center for decontamination robotics

Abstract There are still many hazardous tasks that humans perform in their daily work. This is of great concern for the remediation of contaminated sites, for the dismantling of nuclear power plants, or for the handling of hazardous materials. The competence center ROBDEKON was founded to concentrate expertise and coordinate research activities regarding decontamination robotics in Germany. It serves as a national technology hub for the decontamination needs of various stakeholders. A major scientific goal of ROBDEKON is the development of (semi-)autonomous robotic systems to remove humans from work environments that are potentially hazardous to health.

Advances in Irradiated Livestock Vaccine Research and Production Addressing the Unmet Needs for Farmers and Veterinary Services in FAO/IAEA Member States.

The Animal Production and Health section (APH) of the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture at the International Atomic Energy Agency has over the last 58 years provided technical and scientific support to more than 100 countries through co-ordinated research activities and technical co-operation projects in peaceful uses of nuclear technologies. A key component of this support has been the development of irradiated vaccines targeting diseases that are endemic to participating countries. APH laboratories has over the last decade developed new techniques and has put in place a framework that allows researchers from participating member states to develop relevant vaccines targeting local diseases while using irradiation as a tool for improving livestock resources.

Continental-Scale Network Reveals Cross-Jurisdictional Movements of Sympatric Sharks With Implications for Assessment and Management

Understanding the movement ecology of marine species and connectivity of populations is required for effective fisheries management. This is especially the case for species with wide-ranging distributions for which movement can span across several jurisdictions with different management regulations. We used the Australian national network of acoustic receivers facilitated by the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) to describe the extent and frequency of movements for two large epipelagic shark species, the bronze whaler (Carcharhinus brachyurus) and dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus). A total of 210 sharks (117 bronze whalers and 93 dusky sharks) were tracked for a 10-year period during which 21% and 9% of detected bronze whalers and dusky sharks, respectively, moved between Australian states. Bronze whalers showed more variable inter-state movements, mostly between Western Australia and South Australia but also eastwards to New South Wales (NSW). Although no dusky sharks tagged in Western Australia undertook inter-state movements, ∼50% of the sharks tagged in South Australia went to Western Australia. Five of the 14 dusky sharks tagged in NSW (36%) were detected across different states but remained on the east and southeast coasts (Queensland, NSW, Victoria, and Tasmania). The IMOS receivers also detected six bronze whalers in Ningaloo Reef, representing an extension of the previously known Australian distribution. Our findings highlight the value of collaboration between researchers and the value of national infrastructure, by providing a more accurate understanding of inter-state movements. This new information will allow the development of more adequate population dynamic models for stock assessment and management advice, requiring collaboration among state agencies for coordinating research activities, sharing data and resources, and establishing appropriate cross-jurisdictional policies. This is essential to achieve successful management and conservation outcomes for highly migratory species.

The International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories Presents Abstracts from Its 2021 Annual Meeting Connect and Collaborate through Biobanking: Powering Innovation and Discovery May 10–14, 2021

The International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories Presents Abstracts from Its 2021 Annual Meeting Connect and Collaborate through Biobanking: Powering Innovation and Discovery May 10–14, 2021

Strengthening the SSTC NRS Scientific and Technical Potential through Participation in the IAEA Coordinated Research Projects

The State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety (SSTC NRS), a Ukrainian enterprise with a 29-year experience in the area of scientific and technical support to the national nuclear regulator (SNRIU), has been actively involved in international research activities. Participation in the IAEA coordinated research activities is among the SSTC NRS priorities. In the period of 2018–2020, the IAEA accepted four SSTC NRS proposals for participation in respective Coordinated Research Projects (CRPs). These CRPs address scientific and technical issues in different areas such as: 1) performance of probabilistic safety assessment for multi-unit/multi-reactor sites; 2) use of dose projection tools to ensure preparedness and response to nuclear and radiological emergencies; 3) phenomena related to in-vessel melt retention; 4) spent fuel characterization. This article presents a brief overview of the abovementioned projects with definition of scientific contributions by the SSTC NRS (participation in benchmarks, development of methodological documents on implementing research stages and of IAEA technical documents (TECDOC) for demonstration of best practices and results of research carried out by international teams).

Treat Iron-Related Childhood-Onset Neurodegeneration (TIRCON)-An International Network on Care and Research for Patients With Neurodegeneration With Brain Iron Accumulation (NBIA).

In order to improve clinical care, coordinate research activities and raise awareness for the ultra-orphan Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation (NBIA) disorders, a group of NBIA clinicians and researchers, industry partners and patient advocacies from six European countries, Canada and the US joined forces in 2010 to set-up the collaborative initiative TIRCON (Treat Iron-Related Childhood-Onset Neurodegeneration). As a research project, TIRCON received funding in the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Union (EU) from 2011 to 2015. After successful and timely completion of the initial FP7 project, funding and donations from industry and patient organizations have sustained the further development of TIRCON's dedicated clinical research infrastructure and its governance architecture, as well as the ongoing efforts undertaken in the NBIA community to establish a network of care. From the beginning, the University Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany has been coordinating the TIRCON initiative. It consists of 8 work packages, of which the first double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, multi-site clinical trial in NBIA (deferiprone in PKAN, completed) and a global patient registry and biobank, currently comprising baseline and follow-up data of > 400 NBIA patients have gained particular importance. Here we describe TIRCON's history with all the challenges and achievements in diagnosing and treating NBIA. Today, TIRCON lays the ground for future clinical care and research. In these times, it may also serve as a good example of well-directed governmental funding and fruitful international scientific collaboration.

Human disease genes website series: An international, open and dynamic library for up-to-date clinical information.

Since the introduction of next‐generation sequencing, an increasing number of disorders have been discovered to have genetic etiology. To address diverse clinical questions and coordinate research activities that arise with the identification of these rare disorders, we developed the Human Disease Genes website series (HDG website series): an international digital library that records detailed information on the clinical phenotype of novel genetic variants in the human genome (https://humandiseasegenes.info/). Each gene website is moderated by a dedicated team of clinicians and researchers, focused on specific genes, and provides up‐to‐date—including unpublished—clinical information. The HDG website series is expanding rapidly with 424 genes currently adopted by 325 moderators from across the globe. On average, a gene website has detailed phenotypic information of 14.4 patients. There are multiple examples of added value, one being the ARID1B gene website, which was recently utilized in research to collect clinical information of 81 new patients. Additionally, several gene websites have more data available than currently published in the literature. In conclusion, the HDG website series provides an easily accessible, open and up‐to‐date clinical data resource for patients with pathogenic variants of individual genes. This is a valuable resource not only for clinicians dealing with rare genetic disorders such as developmental delay and autism, but other professionals working in diagnostics and basic research. Since the HDG website series is a dynamic platform, its data also include the phenotype of yet unpublished patients curated by professionals providing higher quality clinical detail to improve management of these rare disorders.

MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF NEUTRONICS START-UP TESTS AT CHINA EXPERIMENTAL FAST REACTOR (CEFR)

China Experimental Fast Reactor (CEFR) is a small size sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) with a high neutron leakage core fueled by uranium oxide. The CEFR core with 20 MW(e) power reached its first criticality in July 2010, and several start-up tests were conducted from 2010 to 2011. The China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) proposed to release some of the neutronics start-up test data for the IAEA benchmark within the scope of the IAEA’s coordinated research activities through the coordinated research project (CRP) on “Neutronics Benchmark of CEFR Start-Up Tests”, launched in 2018. This benchmark aims to perform validation and verification of the physical models and the neutronics simulation codes by comparing calculation results against collected experimental data. The six physics start-up tests considered for this CRP include evaluation of the criticality, control rod worth, void reactivity, temperature coefficient, swap reactivity, and foil irradiation. Twenty-nine participating research organizations are performing independent blind calculations during the first phase of the project. As a part of this coordinated research, IAEA performed neutronics calculations using Monte Carlo code SERPENT. Two kinds of 3D core models, homogenous and heterogeneous, were calculated using SERPENT, with ENDF/B-VII.0 continuous energy library. Preliminary results with a reasonably good estimation of criticality, as well as theoretically sound results of other five test cases, are available. The paper will discuss the core modelling assumptions, challenges and key findings of modelling a dense SFR core, preliminary results of the first phase of the CRP, heterogeneity impact analysis between homogenous core models and heterogeneous core models and future work to be performed as a part of this four-year project.

Виды научных текстов в отечественной историографии на примере изучения истории предпринимательства дореволюционной Сибири

The study is devoted to the analysis of research texts of the historiographic development of the history of entrepreneurship in pre-revolutionary Siberia. Modern historiography has accumulated a great deal of factual material. Historians have published monographs, thematic collections, articles, abstracts, reviews, reports, bibliographic indexes, encyclopedias and reference pub-lications, the councils defend candidate and doctoral dissertations on various problems in this area. The genre variety of scientific literature about business people reflects a broad professional and public interest in trade and other business activities and contributes to the coordination of research activities. Domestic historiography of the history of merchants and entrepreneurship in Siberia is represented by a significant number of works by historians of the region. The purpose of the study is to analyze the research text as a form of organizing speech material in the scientific discourse of studying the history of entrepreneurship in Siberia in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries. We use the methods of historical research, based on the analysis and generalization of research by other researchers, with the application of the principle of historicism, which made it possible to apply the historical-logical, historical-systemic methods. The region-oriented approach made it possible to study more fully the features of scientific texts in the historiography of the history of entrepreneurship in Siberia. The research results are as follows: scientific historical discourse is characterized by a certain set of norms, stereotypes of thinking and behavior; scientific communication plays a significant role in the life of society; genres act as a means of organizing and formalizing interaction in the scientific community; text as a form of organizing speech material in scientific discourse is characterized by the originality and recognizability of style, compositional structure.

Addressing the burden of cervical cancer through IAEA global brachytherapy initiatives

PurposeBrachytherapy (BT) is an essential component of definitive therapy for locally advanced cervical cancer. Despite the advantages of the dose distribution with BT in cervical cancer, there is paucity of specific skills required for good-quality BT applications. Furthermore, replacing BT with other modern external beam techniques as a boost can lead to suboptimal results in cervix cancer. Methods and MaterialsReview of available IAEA resources, research and cooperation programs available from the IAEA was completed. These opportunities can be used to address challenges in Brachytherapy.The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) provides support for BT through various means that includes education and training, both long term, short term and continuing medical education of professionals, providing expert visits to support implementation, development of curricula for professionals, e-learning through the human health campus, contouring workshops, 2D to 3D BT training, and virtual tumor boards. In addition, the IAEA provides support for implementing quality assurance in radiotherapy to its member states and provides guidelines for comprehensive audits in radiation therapy (QUATRO), and produces safety standards and training in radiation safety. In addition, mapping BT resources, making the case for investment and support for setting up BT services and radiotherapy centers are also available. The IAEA Dosimetry Laboratory provides calibration services to Secondary Standards Dosimetry Laboratories for well chambers used to confirm the reference air kerma rate of Co60 and Ir192 high-dose-rate BT sources, as well as for Cs137 low-dose-rate sources.Furthermore, the IAEA supports research and development in radiotherapy (and BT) through coordinated research activities that include controlled randomized clinical trials, Patterns of Care studies among others. Partnerships with professional organizations and funding bodies, as well as through the United Nations Joint Global Programme on Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control support radiotherapy activities, including BT in countries worldwide. ConclusionThe IAEA supports brachytherapy implementation, training and research and provides resources to professionals in the area.

The Children's Oncology Group Adolescent and Young Adult Responsible Investigator Network: A New Model for Addressing Site-Level Factors Impacting Clinical Trial Enrollment.

Purpose: In the Children's Oncology Group (COG), there is precedent for scientific committees designating institutional Responsible Investigators (RIs) to promote clinical trial enrollment and coordinate related research activities. In response to low enrollment of adolescents and young adults (AYAs) on COG clinical trials, the COG AYA RI Network was established. Leveraging this network, we undertook an initiative to identify site-level factors influencing AYA enrollment. Methods: The overarching goal of the AYA RI Network is to increase AYA enrollment onto COG trials. At each site, RIs highlight AYA disparities, facilitate activation of relevant trials, improve recruitment processes, and expand interactions with medical oncologists. Through a series of monthly national webinars and workshops, participating RIs reported local barriers and facilitators enrolling AYAs. A mixed-methods approach was utilized to determine major themes of factors affecting site-level enrollment. Results: For this report, there were 145 participating RIs representing 122 demographically and geographically diverse sites. There were 13 interactive webinars and 3 symposia involving 25 speakers focused on addressing enrollment barriers. Major thematic categories for site-level barriers were (1) Lack of available trials; (2) Poor communication between pediatric and medical oncology; (3) Logistical constraints to accessing trials; and (4) Need for leadership support, sufficient resources and appropriate policies. Conclusion: The COG AYA RI Network has identified multiple site-level barriers impeding AYA clinical trial enrollment and represents a novel model for developing and implementing appropriate solutions through a nationally coordinated strategy.

A Process for Defining Prototype Building Models: Courthouse Case Study for U.S. Commercial Energy

Buildings currently consume 36% of the world’s energy and contribute nearly 40% of CO2 emissions. Many countries desire to generate virtual models of their nation’s buildings in order to coordinate research activities and inform market opportunities for a more sustainable built environment. The United States Department of Energy uses a suite of Commercial Prototype Building Models, which currently includes 16 building types and covers 80% of US commercial floorspace. Efforts are underway to expand this suite by developing prototype models for additional building types. In this paper, we outline a systematic approach to defining the building, collecting relevant information and creating a flexible model while doing so in the pragmatic context of a courthouse building. Informed by building design guides, databases, documented projects and inputs from courthouse design experts, we define a small, 69,324 ft2 (6440 m2), four-courtroom, low-rise courthouse as the prototype to represent an average-size courthouse in the US. We present building characteristics relevant for energy model development and provide the rationale for their selection. These details combined with climate- and construction-vintage-specific requirements for the building envelope and systems from building standards will be used for developing the courthouse model for the Commercial Prototype Building Models suite. The comprehensive information presented will also guide model modification to capture the dynamics of smaller or larger courthouses more accurately for building or system size-specific research.

Toward Sustainable Environmental Quality: Priority Research Questions for North America.

Anticipating, identifying, and prioritizing strategic needs represent essential activities by research organizations. Decided benefits emerge when these pursuits engage globally important environment and health goals, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. To this end, horizon scanning efforts can facilitate identification of specific research needs to address grand challenges. We report and discuss 40 priority research questions following engagement of scientists and engineers in North America. These timely questions identify the importance of stimulating innovation and developing new methods, tools, and concepts in environmental chemistry and toxicology to improve assessment and management of chemical contaminants and other diverse environmental stressors. Grand challenges to achieving sustainable management of the environment are becoming increasingly complex and structured by global megatrends, which collectively challenge existing sustainable environmental quality efforts. Transdisciplinary, systems‐based approaches will be required to define and avoid adverse biological effects across temporal and spatial gradients. Similarly, coordinated research activities among organizations within and among countries are necessary to address the priority research needs reported here. Acquiring answers to these 40 research questions will not be trivial, but doing so promises to advance sustainable environmental quality in the 21st century. Environ Toxicol Chem 2019;38:1606–1624. © 2019 The Authors. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of SETAC.

One model fits all? How centres of excellence affect research organisation and practices in the humanities

ABSTRACT Centres of Excellence (CoE) have become a common research policy instrument in several OECD countries the last two decades. The CoE schemes are in general modelled on the organisational and research practices in the natural and life sciences. Compared to ‘Big science’, the humanities have been characterised by more individual research, flat structures, and usually less integration and coordination of research activities. In this article we ask: How does the introduction of CoEs affect the organisation of research and research practices in the humanities? By comparing Norwegian CoEs in different fields of research and studying the specific challenges of the humanities, we find that CoEs increase collaboration between different fields and make disciplinary and organisational boundaries more permeable, but so far they do not substantially alter individual collaboration patterns in the humanities CoEs. They further seem to generate more tensions in their adjacent environments compared to CoEs in other fields.

Research joint ventures and technological proximity

We study research joint ventures (RJV) in a setting where knowledge spillovers increase with the technological proximity between firms. The scenarios we investigate differ in the intensity of collaboration which depends on the (non)coordination of research activities and the extent of exchanged knowledge. Firms can form bilateral RJVs what leads to the existence of insiders (collaborating firms) as well as outsiders (non-collaborating firms) in an oligopolistic market. Our central findings are (i) RJVs do not generally outperform competitive research with respect to innovative output and social welfare; (ii) technological proximity and the intensity of collaboration play a decisive role for the private and social benefits of a RJV; (iii) joint research combined with complete knowledge sharing does not generally outperform less intensive collaboration forms.

Activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency in the Field of Cervical Cancer

Background and context: In 2012, 560,000 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer (CXCA) worldwide and 266,000 women died of the disease: 86% of cases and 88% of deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and two thirds of the cases are locally advanced. For locally advanced CXCA the evidence-based treatment is a combination of external beam radiotherapy with chemotherapy and brachytherapy. Five-year overall survival for all stages combined ranges between 60%-69%, depending on the case-mix and the treatment modalities used. Countries with no access to radiotherapy may only offer palliative treatment to women diagnosed with locally advanced cervical cancer. Any curative attempt for these patients should include the two components of radiotherapy: concomitant radio-chemotherapy and brachytherapy. Radiotherapy is also a cost-effective treatment modality. Aim: To show the contribution and impact of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the improvement of results of CXCA in LMICs. Strategy/Tactics: Through its various programs, such as the Technical Cooperation programs, the Human Health program and the Program of Action for Cancer Therapy, the IAEA is committed to address these disproportionate geographic incidence and mortality rates introducing, expanding and improving radiotherapy services, working with partners such as WHO to improve cancer diagnosis, treatment, care, and control through collective action in these countries. Program/Policy process: During the last six decades, the IAEA has helped in addressing the growing cancer burden, delivering cancer-related assistance to LMICs, with financial and in-kind support from member states, donors and partners. The IAEA assistance has been primarily facilitated through the deployment of robust radiotherapy and nuclear medicine programs, coordinated research activities, documentation system and quality assurance program. This has enabled many member states to establish safe and effective diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy capacity to provide treatment and higher quality care to many of their cancer patients. The Program of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT) is the IAEA's umbrella program for combating cancer and builds upon the above experience in radiation medicine expertise and technology. The WHO-IAEA Joint Program enable LMI member states to introduce, expand and improve their cancer treatment capacities and therapeutic effectiveness by integrating radiotherapy into a comprehensive national cancer control program. Outcomes: The IAEA provides tools for improving the practice of radiation medicine around the world. A fully implemented department (megavoltage and afterloading units, trained staff and quality assurance procedures in place) can treat up to 666 new CXCA cases per year, of which around 70% (466) can be cured. What was learned: Investing in radiotherapy can save lives!

FORE-Med - the development of a foresight methodology for the prioritisation of animal health research in the Mediterranean area up to 2030.

Diseases evolve constantly and research is needed to face emerging new threats. Evidences suggest that the impact of such threats will have its peak in the Mediterranean area. The FORE‑Med, Foresight project for the Mediterranean, aims at identifying the future challenges on livestock health and aquaculture in this area, to ensure an effective coordination of research activities and the delivery of timely solution to emerging issues. One hundred experts with multidisciplinary background and coming from countries all around the Mediterranean basin were gathered to participate in a think‑tank to develop a Strategic Research Agenda on animal health for Mediterranean up to 2030. A tailored foresight methodology was implemented, merging the best fit for purpose techniques (e.g. '7 questions', Social, Technological, Economical, Environmental, and Political (STEEP), analysis, scenario building, and backcasting). Both remote and face‑to‑face debates were held, to ensure a fruitful exchanges and participation among experts. Research needs were identified and prioritised, both on relevance and on temporal scale. The implemented participative approach allowed for the definition of a research priority list for animal health and aquaculture in the Mediterranean, which served as a basis to build a strategic research agenda. The latter is expected to satisfy the sectors' needs and guarantee a much‑needed coordination for research activities in the Mediterranean area.

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To increase the contribution of salmon fishery to the food security, economy, and prosperity of Russia, the scientifically based approaches of the effective forecasting and management aimed at the minimization of all risks to the bioresources condition should be developed. The paper analyzes the views of the scientific community about the future of Pacific salmon. Based on the literature review, the authors conclude about the fact that this issue is an object of the intellectual discourse that increases significantly the uncertainty in the management of this valuable fishery type. Some authors do not see any risks to the Pacific salmon resources standing for its ecological flexibility and the ability to overpass freely temperature jumps and mixed free water. Other, on the contrary, predict fundamental change in the stock of this species based on the emerging tendency of reduction in the indices of harvest in the Northern Pacific. The development of international cooperation and the intensification of coordinated research activities aimed at the study of the stock dynamics of salmon, its range, and the immunity to the anthropogenic load can be the effective solution to eliminate these contradictions. The authors study the initiatives of international organizations in the sphere of Pacific salmon control. In particular, key components of the pilot project of the Commission for the anadromous fish of North Pacific Ocean – the International year of salmon, including the goal, the topics and time limits, and the main stages, were identified. New priorities for future studies are suggested, which will contribute to our understanding of the future of salmon in the changing world and better inform the agricultural and food policy.