Straubing / Germany, May 2007

Dear Friends,

I hope many of you were able to attend the 25th ICC / 17th ECCMID which took place last month and some of you may be able to attend one of our forthcoming smaller, more targeted meetings in the near future.

25th ICC / 17th ECCMID
Munich, Germany

The joint ICC / ECCMID was a great success. With over 7,500 participants from 106 different countries, it was the largest meeting in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in European history. 2,915 abstracts were received of which 56% were accepted for poster presentation and 8% were accepted for oral presentation.

Special ISC honours and awards were as follows:
The Hamao Umezawa Memorial Award was presented to Prof. Satoshi Omura
ISC Honorary Membership was presented to Dr. George N. Rolinson
ISC Meritorious Membership was presented to Prof. Erdal Akalin
The Inter-American Society of Chemotherapy (IASC) Travel Award was presented to Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Venezuela
Tom Bergan Memorial Awardees were W. F. Oosthuysen, South Africa and I. Pakzad, Iran.
John David Williams Memorial Awardees were F. Behzadian, Iran and V. Neela, Malaysia.

ISC Executive Committee
During the congress, Prof. Teresita Mazzei (Italy) was elected ISC President Elect and Prof. Ian Gould (UK) was elected as the new Honorary Treasurer. After a ballot, the four new ordinary members were announced as Donald Low (Canada), Pramod Shah (Germany), Raul Raz (Israel), Po-Ren Hsueh (Taiwan).

9th International Symposium on Modern Concepts in Endocarditis and Cardiovascular Infections, 14-17 June 2007 Heidelberg, Germany

This meeting has been co-organized by ISC and International Society for Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases (ISCVID).

Elias Abrutyn Young Investigator Award

The winner will be chosen from among the abstract presenters during the meeting, must be still in training and under the age of 35. The proze will be 500 US$ and free admission to the congress.

For further information on the programme, abstract submission and registration, please go to www.cardiocore.de

26th ICC Toronto Canada

The next International Congress of Chemotherapy will take place 18 – 21 June 2009. Please mark these dates in your diary.

The organising committee has already started planning for the next ICC. Proposals from the ISC affiliated societies and the ISC Working Groups for the programme should be sent to one of the joint chairpersons of the Programme Committee;
M. Joffe (mjoffe@ualberta.ca) or
J-C. Pechère (jcpechere@yahoo.com)
no later than September 10, 2007

Raising money for breast cancer research and cancer care

Our own Fiona MacKenzie (ISC Executive Director) will take part in the Moon Walk in Edinburgh, Scotland on 16th June. She will “power walk” 26 miles in an overnight event that starts at 10pm. All money raised goes towards a world-wide charity for breast cancer research and cancer care. Information on the charity and event can be found at www.walkthewalk.org.
If you would like to sponsor Fiona, please go to www.justgiving.com/Fiona_MacKenzie. Any amount would be appreciated.

Professor Kurt G. Naber
President of ISC
kurt.naber@nabers.de