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Nov. 29(Wed)-Dec.1(Fri), 2006
Edogawaku Sougoh Kumin Hall
Chairman: Toshihiko Ikeda (Drug Metabolism & Pharmacokinetics
Research Laboratories, Sankyo Co.,Ltd.)
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Invitation to 21st JSSX Annual Meeting Tokyo 2006 (PDF 77KB)
The 21st JSSX Annual Meeting will be held in Tokyo, Japan on November 29 - December 1, 2006. The main meeting theme is gPromotion of Drug Discovery & Development and DMPK Sciences Responding to Technological Innovation and Globalizationh. More information of the meeting is available on the website: (http://www.jssx.org/nenkai21/index.html).
Dear Colleagues:
I still remember what a famous scientist said about the law of universal gravitation: gIt is truly fortunate for us that the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between two masses. If it were proportional, our world would be much affected by invisible masses located far away in the universe, and the more remote the position, the stronger the influence, not allowing us to live normally.h
Our good fortune in this world is that we are able to live safely by creating sufficient distance from a threat. However, the velocity of signal transduction is becoming much faster than ever nowadays. The size of the earth has effectively become so small that any event that occurred yesterday at any distant point on the globe affects our immediate environment today. Recognition of this is firmly consolidated in the word "globalization". It can be said that all sectors, politics, economics, science, sport, public entertainment and so on, are taking the globalization route. In science especially, any small finding published in any scientific journal is disseminated immediately all over the world if it is considered important. In many fields including drug discovery and development, where something is created based on scientific fact, one must receive signals sent from any position on the earth by expanding our antenna as widely as possible.
In this light, I ask members of the Japanese Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (JSSX) who are going to attend the JSSX annual meeting this year to prepare abstracts in English, similar to the previous two annual meetings at Kanazawa (19th annual meeting) and at Maui (20th annual meeting as a joint meeting with the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics, ISSX). This year, I have also decided to hold a joint symposium with the ISSX members in Asia Pacific region, hoping that the atmosphere generated will encourage the AP-ISSX members to attend the JSSX annual meeting taking it as one of their home meetings for
presenting their papers or exchanging information. It would enable both AP-ISSX and JSSX members to acquire information without traveling worldwide.
In the annual meeting, all poster presentations will be in English. Some of the oral presentations, however, will be given in Japanese. Therefore, the program will clearly describe which presentation is going to be given in English.
A number of innovations will be introduced in the symposium this year. Some topics were invited from selected JSSX members, so the content of the symposium is expected to greater meet the variety of needs of JSSX members. Dr. Yuichi Sugiyama, the JSSX President, will launch a "Young Scientists Symposium". I should stress that there is no age limit for participating in the Young Scientists Symposium; any stimulating comments or suggestions by any attendees to young scientists are very much welcomed.
Perceiving the recent movements of the FDA and EMEA, ways for Japan to embrace these new trends are to be explored in the Forum to be held at the end of the meeting. Moreover, special lectures by invited speakers as well as luncheon seminars and exhibitions will be held, too.
I also encourage those who submitted the poster papers to apply for the best poster award (BP award). Members of the BP award committee will score the abstracts of applicants to the BP award and select 10 to 15 finalists. The finalists will receive a gcertificate of finalisth, and are invited to the meeting dinner free of charge. During the meeting, members of the BP award committee will visit the finalistsf posters and select winners for the first to third places. The award ceremony is to be held before the Forum starts.
The annual meeting is a good opportunity for scientists involved in drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics to meet together, discuss topics of mutual interest, and exchange information. Please utilize the JSSX annual meeting as effectively as you can. Your participation is the key to our future.
Looking forward to seeing all of you at the 21st JSSX Annual Meeting, With best regards,
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