IMSC is cordially invited to Kyoto for the first time outside Europe in its 50 year history.
On the IMSF affiliate meeting held on the 27th August 2006 at Prague, Kyoto was selected as the venue for the 19th IMSC in 2012. It is a great pleasure and honor for the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan (MSSJ) to win the first place beyond other European cities which presented attractive and good invitations.
The MSSJ established in 1953 has cherished a dream of inviting IMSC. In 1964 during the 3rd IMSC at Paris, Professor Ogata at Osaka University was encouraged by the international MS committee members to hold IMSC in Japan. The dream partly became in reality in our first international mass spectrometry meeting held in 1969 as an "Intermediate Conference" between the IMSC years at the Kyoto International Conference Hall (K.I.C.H.). In 1992, again as an "Intermediate Conference”, we had the International Conference on Biological Mass Spectrometry at the same venue under the principal effort of Professor Matsuo.
MSSJ has been involved in the international community and played a significant part of this ever-progressing science and technology, with distinguished achievements by a Thomson Medal awardee Professor Matsuda (1991) and a Nobel Prize winner Mr Koichi Tanaka (2002).
The conference site is the meetings Mecca of Japan, K.I.C.H., which hosted COP3 for 1997 and inspired the declaration of the Kyoto Protocol on Global Warming.
We will make every effort to offer the highest levels of science and communications in this esteemed MS meeting IMSC.
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