From BEIJING 2006 towards MONTREAL ISP 2010

The fifth International Congress of Pathophysiology (June 28 - July 1, 2006) was organized in China International Conference Center, Beijing by the Chinese Association of Pathophysiology with the support of China Association for Science and Technology. Professor Qide Han served as the President of the Congress and Professor Liling Wu as the Secretary General. The Congress was run smoothly, and the meeting atmosphere was infiltrated with humanistic flavour of traditional and modern Chinese culture and remarkable progress of Chinese science.

Some 900 participants (632 from China and 296 from abroad) attended ISP2006. In the program fifteen plenary lectures were given. In 33 symposia some 320 oral presentations and more than 600 posters in 12 poster sessions were presented. Six satellite meetings were held. - Ten young poster presenters got a grant.

The International Society for Pathophysiology had its administrative meetings during the Congress, too. The ISP General Assembly elected for the next four year period (2006-2010) Professor Qide Han, China to serve as ISP President and Professor Youyi Zhang as ISP Secretary General (zhangyy@bjmu.edu.cn).

Other Officers (2006-2010) are Monos E, Hungary Past President, Hamet P, Canada President Elect, Arkhipenko Y, Russia Vice President, Greenwald S, England Vice President, Zhang Y, China Secretary General, Rosivall L, Hungary Treasurer, Hänninen O, Finland Editor of Pathophysiology.

Other Council members elected (NEW means new member and other are re-elected members) for 2006-2010 are: Adeniyi K, Nigeria (NEW), Atalay M, Turkey, Benjelloun, W, Morocco (NEW), Cowley A, USA, Djuric D, Serbia (NEW), Fry CH, England (NEW), Grachev SV, Russia, Jakovljevic V, Serbia (NEW), Kovač Z, Croatia , Laitinen T, Finland (NEW), Mahmoudian M, Iran, Matsuo O, Japan, Meigal R, Russia (NEW), Morita H, Japan (NEW), Navasardyan G, Armenia , Orlov S, Canada, Rodriguez RR, Argentina, Sakata T, Japan, Scholle H-Ch, Germany (NEW), Seijersted OM, Norway(NEW), Štrbák V, Slovakia (NEW), Szollár LG, Hungary, Vozeh F, Czech Republic, Wang J, China (NEW). - Representative of young pathophysiologists will be nominated later.

For life time elected honorary members of ISP are Kryzhanovsky G, Russia Founder Honorary President, Korpas J, Slovakia Honorary Council Member, Oomura Y, Japan Honorary Council Member and Yoshikawa T, Japan Honorary Editor of Pathophysiology

ISP2010

The ISP General Assembly confirmed, after receiving the report on the well worked out preparations, that 6th Congress of Pathophysiology (www.ISPmontreal2010.com) will be held September 22 to 25, 2010 in Montreal (Quebec), Canada, (more about the hosting city e.g. www.montrealcam.com) with Professor Pavel Hamet as its President (pavel.hamet@umontreal.ca) and Professor Sergei Orlov (sergei.orlov@umontreal.ca) as its Secretary General.
Canadians welcome us to this first congress of pathophysiology on American Continent.

Osmo Hänninen, Editor in Chief