Volume 47
Issue 1, 2023
ISSX President’s Message By Scott Obach, ISSX President Greetings Fellow ISSX Members! I have just returned to the US after participating in the Asia-Pacific ISSX Conference that was in Bengaluru, India. What a fantastic meeting and fantastic experience!! The presentations were some of the best I’ve heard in a long time; perhaps we all had a lot of pent-up science from three years of pandemic isolation. Congratulations to Thanga Mariappan and his team for organizing such an engaging meeting. I’m sure that there will be summary of the meeting highlights in an upcoming issue of the ISSX Newsletter. And congratulations to Hiroshi Yamazaki for receiving a well-deserved ISSX Asia-Pacific Achievement Award which he received at the meeting for his sustained and prolific output of research on P450 enzymes and other topics. It was encouraging to see the energy and interest from so many young attendees participating in the meeting—this portends the
future success of India in xenobiotic research. And finally, as I had mentioned in a previous letter, I had an intent to experience a Bollywood movie in an Indian theater, and that intent was fulfilled with six of us seeing Pathaan on Tuesday night after the conference. Three hours of over-the-top thrills, stunts, violence, and action, and, of course the expected interludes of music and dance included in Bollywood films. Wow! Very soon we’ll have our first virtual workshop of 2023 and the topic is one that particularly excites me— Drug Metabolites. This will run March 1–3 for four hours each day. Check out the Workshop Program, and join me online in March. Presenters will be from drug metabolism labs of pharmaceutical companies, government scientists from regulatory authorities, and academic researchers. Remember to register; this is not one to miss. I can’t wait!
With the AsiaPacific regional meeting behind us, we can turn our attention to our other two regional conferences in 2023. First will Scott Obach be the European ISSX President ISSX Meeting at the University of Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom, just a short trip from London June 11–14. The meeting is combined with the DMDG so the conference will contain elements from both meetings. Later in the year, we’ll host the 25 North American ISSX Meeting in Boston. Programs for both are finalizing so keep your eyes open on the ISSX Website for these, and I look forward to seeing everyone’s interesting lab findings in the poster sessions.
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IN THIS ISSUE 2 Changes on the ISSX Council 9 ISSX Webinar Series 12 Save the Date: ISSX/DMDG 2023 4 Book Review Small Molecule Metabolites in Drug 14 Welcome New Members 5 Discovery and Development 7 Renew Your ISSX Membership for 2023 15 ISSX Focus Groups 8 Save the Date: The 25th North American ISSX Meeting