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Analytical Cellular Pathology 25 (2003) 209 209IOS Press

Goodbye Analytical Cellular Pathology,hello Cellular Oncology!

This is the last issue ofAnalytical Cellular Pathol-ogy, that brings you the abstracts of the last confer-ence of the European Society for Analytical CellularPathology (ESACP) that was held at the VU Univer-sity in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 1–4 Octo-ber 2003. This meeting (the International Conferenceon Applied Genomics) was a joint meeting with the In-ternational Society for Analytical Cellular Pathology(ISDQP). This joint meeting was the final one in a se-ries of joint meetings between the two Societies, illus-trating how close the Societies had grown together overthe years. Traditionally, the ESACP had more focuson quantitative biology and technology, but in recentyears there has been more interest in clinical applica-tions as was apparent on the various meetings of theSociety. The ISDQP had traditionally more focus onapplications of quantitative techniques, but had shiftedmore towards newer technology and biology in recentyears. The Societies shared many members, but wereboth relatively small. After extensive talks between theboards of the two Societies, it became clear that theonly way to go forward was to merge the two Societies.

This process has taken several years, during whicha draft of the constitution for the new Society wasformed, the members of both mother Societies were in-formed and heard, and ballots were organized to voteon the merger and the constitution draft. During theAmsterdam meeting, this process has come to a close.Had the ISDQP members voted favourably before, theESACP members accepted the proposals during theAmsterdam meeting. Thereby, the ESACP and ISDQPwere closed, and a new society was formed, which willbe called the International Society for Cellular Oncol-ogy (ISCO). The interim board of ISCO, which is com-posed of the officers of the mother Societies and whichwill be in function until proper elections at the nextISCO meeting in Belfast in 2005, believes this name

to reflect best what we have done in the past, do nowand/or want to do in the years to come: to study cellularprocesses in cancer. Cancer has been the focus of mostactivities within both mother Societies anyway, but ofcourse technology will keep us connected with thosestudying other diseases. ISCO will be able to host alltraditional activities of the mother Societies, but willcreate new opportunities as we will be better visibly toand thereby more attractive for scientists and cliniciansworking in cancer biology and genomics. Hopefully,this will lead to larger membership of ISCO and biggermeetings.

The new Society deserves a new Journal. TheISQDP hadAnalytical and Quantitative Cytology andHistology as its (unowned) home journal, and theESACP ownedAnalytical Cellular Pathology (ACP).The best solution in the end was to re-launch ACP as“Cellular Oncology”, with a new board, a new editor,and new looks. All this is being worked on, and wehope to announce the new editor and the new boardsoon.Cellular Oncology will have a website whereall papers will be electronically available, and will in-herit the impact factor from ACP to make sure the newJournal won’t have to survive the usual first few dif-ficult years without this important bibliographic mea-sure. Further, we will have to work on an electronicsubmission and reviewing system. All this will giveCellular Oncology a good chance of success, but natu-rally it will take the lasting efforts of all of us to investin our own new Journal with good papers.

Paul J. van Diest, MD, PhDPresident of the International Society for

Cellular Oncology

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