International Society on Toxinology

The International Society on Toxinology was founded in 1962 by a group on scientists and clinicians interested in advancing the science of toxinology. The Society had it's first international meeting in 1966 in Atlantic City, USA and it's Journal, Toxicon, was first published in 1963.

The purpose of the Society is to advance knowledge on the properties of toxins and antitoxins and to bring together scholars interested in these substances through a common Society. Membership consists of those who have conducted and published meritorious original investigations in toxinology, while persons who do not qualify for membership but are interested in the field of toxinology are eligible for associate membership.

This website is designed to give IST members and others interested in toxinology access to IST information on forthcoming meetings, subscription payment, membership profiles and related matters.

IMPORTANT NEWS!!!
The next IST World Congress, in Recife, Brazil, March 15-20,2009, is being planned and further announcements will be available later in 2008.

Please note the details for the forthcoming IST regional meetings in Belgium (September 2008) and Vietnam (December 2008).

 

IST NEWS

A reminder to all interested that the next IST international meeting is the World Congress, to be held in Recife, Brazil, March 15-20, 2009.

This is the premiere scientific (and social) meeting for the IST, held every three years. The last IST World Congress was in Glasgow in 2006. Don't miss this major event! Support the IST and support your own learning and information dissemination by attending this major meeting. The Congress website is http://www.sbtx.org.br/index.php?pg=congresso

The next meeting of the European Section of the IST will be in Leuven, Belgium, 7-10 September 2008. The venue will be Auditorium De Valk, Tiensestraat 42, B-3000 Leuven. There is a dedicated website for the Congress at www.istleuven2008.be A number of exciting speakers and topics have been confirmed, which combined with the location, the delightful and historic town of Leuven, make this a meeting not to miss. For more information visit the above website.

The next meeting of the Asia-Pacific Section of the IST will be in Hanoi and Halong Bay, Vietnam, December 2-6, 2008. Information about this Congress can be found on a dedicated website, www.toxinology.org.vn

It is with great sadness the IST notes the recent death of Prof. André Ménez, current President of the IST. Prof. Ménez was an outstanding scientist and a driving force in the IST. The Society owes him an enormous debt for his contributions to toxinology and for his constant support of the IST and the journal Toxicon. His energetic commitment to establish a genome project on a venomous animal is a great example for an initiative which will lead to important discoveries that he tragically will not share. We will greatly miss him.

Prof. P. Gopalakrishnakone, President Elect, will now assume the office of IST President.

In a double loss for French and global toxinology, Prof. Cassian Bon, late of the Institut Pasteur, also died, in March. Both he and Prof. Ménez were leading members of the toxinology community and to loose both in such a short space of time is a tragedy for us all. Like Prof. Ménez, Prof. Bon was active until the end, contributing to both venom research and efforts to produce a new antivenom for Africa and global guidelines for antivenom production, through the WHO.