Straubing / Germany, April 2006

Dear friends,

The Executive Committee of the ISC met during the recent ECCMID in Nice.
The committee is most grateful to those individuals and organisations that contributed towards the JD Williams Memorial Award. The amount of money donated, which is till rising, reflects the high level of respect and affection, which he merited. The Award, for presentations at the ICC, will be given to young scientists from countries with limited resources, for their contribution to the science of chemotherapy.

The committee is encouraged by the early success of the online facility for submission of manuscripts to the ISC publication; International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. IJAA goes from strength to strength; online usage has increased significantly over the last five years and the impact factor (2.064 in 2004) is rising at a faster rate than its close competitors.

25th ICC / 17th ECCMID

The next ICC is a combined Congress with ECCMID in Munich, Germany, 31 March - 3 April 2007.

The Programme Committee, which comprises representatives of ISC and ESCMID as well as Experts in specific fields, will meet the first time on 27-28 April in Munich.

Suggestions for the scientific programme should be directed to both the Chairman of the Programme Commission, Prof. Andreas Voss (vossandreas@gmail.com), and the President of the combined Congress, Prof. Bernhard Ruf ruf@sanktgeorg.de.

If you wish to receive the Preliminary Programme and Call for Abstracts, please submit your contact details at www.eccmid-icc.org

ISC meetings

The meetings in the next few months, organised or supported by ISC are as follows:

• 17-20 April 06. 4th Arab Antimicrobial Agent Conference, Tunis, Tunisia
• 3-4 May 06. Singapore. Lancet Asia Medical Forum “Preparing for Pandemic Influenza”
• 4-6 May 06. Varna, Bulgaria, Pharmacotherapy in Urology (DMS) and 16th Annual Assembly of IMAB
• 22-24 June 06. Weimar, Germany. International Urinary Tract Infection Symposium (DMS)
• 25-26 June 06. Catania, Sicily, Italy. 15th Mediterranean Congress of Chemotherapy

Further details on these meetings are available via www.ischemo.org/08_Meetings.htm

8th European Congress of Chemotherapy and Infection

The 8th ECC will be held jointly with the 4th European Congress for Viral Diseases (ConVir) on 25-28 October in Budapest, Hungary. Member societies of FESCI / ISC are still encouraged to propose scientific contributions. ISC member societies should send proposals to Bernhard Rouveix (bernard.rouveix@cch.ap-hop-paris.fr)