PUBLIC ORGANIZATION "ASSOCIATION OF UKRAINIAN SPECIALISTS IN TRACE ELEMENTS SCIENCE"
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The main tasks of the Association are:
• Promoting the scientific advancement of leading problems in the fields of microelementology, exchange of information, and the promotion of understanding of this field among the general population;
• Creation of a data bank of the activity of the Association and the formation of a single electronic information space by posting information about the activities of the Association on the Internet;
• Promoting and organizing congresses, conferences, symposiums, seminars, training courses and schools so that specialists can improve their skills and participate in creative discussions of new and emerging research and concepts for the advancement of microelementology;
• Utilizing mass media to achieve our main goal, including participation in the development and implementation of programs publication of specialized scientific journals, bulletins, collections, monographs, encyclopedic and popular science publications.

From 2015 to 2024, the organization held a number of international conferences and seminars (a total of 17 events). These conferences were attended by scientists from countries such as Kazakhstan, the USA, Poland, Slovakia, France, Germany and the Czech Republic. The first School of Microelementologists was held in 2017 at the Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University. Subsequently, several meetings of the School of Microelementologists were held in 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023. From the day of the Association’s founding until 2023, its President was Academician of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Isaak Mykhailovych Trakhtenberg, and its Chairman was Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Leonid Moiseyovich Shafran. The well-known Academician of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine and Corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Zerbino Dmytro Dionisovich was an honorary member of the Association for a long time (until 2023). The Association includes specialists from 24 scientific institutions of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, National Academy of Medical Sciences and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

In 2016, a bibliographic index of the publications of the members of the Association was published, and in 2016 - 2018, a series of Essays on the Toxicology of Heavy Metals (Pb, Cd, Hg, Cr, Mn and Fe) was published. This allowed us to summarize the research of Ukrainian scientists in the field of medicine, veterinary biology and ecology and learn more about the areas of work of various scientific teams in Ukraine, which contributed to the coordination of joint efforts in studying the problems of microelementology, increased the possibilities of citing the works of domestic researchers, and also allowed us to attract to our ranks specialists who were not yet informed about the creation of the society.