APSR Clean Air Congress Abstract Award

Dr Nakanishi

This award will be available for the best (eligible) Clean Air abstract at each APSR Congress until 2037, jointly funded by Dr Yoichi Nakanishi (president of the APSR 2020-2021) and the APSR.

Dr Nakanishi gives the following reason for his initiation of this award:

Through our respiratory system, we are constantly taking in oxygen from the outside world and emitting carbon dioxide. Therefore, the existence of clean air is a crucial factor in sustaining our health.

However, we are now facing a big crisis; the problem of air pollution. With civilization's development, industrialization has progressed and various cultures have been born. Air pollution as a consequence of industrialization has increased and also the habit of cigarette smoking, a negative legacy of civilization, has taken root. Air pollution is a major contributor to the development of respiratory diseases such as COPD, respiratory infections, ILD and lung cancer.

Today, respiratory diseases are the number one killer of humans, and the APSR is an academic society whose major mission is to protect lung health. The Clean Air Award is to fulfill the mission of our Society to eliminate air pollution and tobacco smoking, including e-cigarettes, to prevent respiratory diseases and elucidate their pathogenesis caused by air pollution and smoking.

Two awardees will be selected for each year's APSR congress from abstracts on Clean Air. The Environmental & Occupational Health and Epidemiology Assembly leaders scoring abstracts will give highest priority to:

research on the effects of the global environment, including air pollution, on lung health

and

research on respiratory diseases caused by smoking including e-cigarettes, and indoor air pollution

The Award:

US$500 (jointly funded by Dr Nakanishi and the APSR)
A commemorative certificate
Invitation to the Gala Dinner (or similar social event) for the award ceremony
The awardee may also be introduced on the APSR website, Bulletin and social media.

The Awardee:

Must be an APSR member (en bloc or individual).
Must be the First Author and able to present the abstract at the Congress
Cannot win multiple awards at the same APSR Congress (except the Respirology Case Reports Poster Award), nor have other travel support for the same APSR Congress.
Must apply for the award on the congress abstract submission form and submit their abstract before the submission deadline: (See congress website)
Must register for the Congress before their individual "cut-off date".
The cut-off date will be provided in the acceptance letter sent by the Local Congress Secretariat. This date will be earlier than the usual registration deadline, to enable the programme schedule to be compiled and awards to be considered.