After many deliberations during the past 18 months, the Board decided to
rename the QSAR and Modelling Society to
THE CHEMINFORMATICS AND QSAR
SOCIETY.
This name change is the third in the history of the Society.
As you may know, when formed in 1989, it was initially named The
International QSAR
Society, and the late Phil Magee was its first Chair. In 1995, the
Society changed its name to The QSAR and Modelling Society.
We believe that changing the name of the Society is a healthy event that
reflects the changing nature of the research conducted by the growing
number of the Society members.
The subject of the name change was discussed at two recent major
meetings where many current and prospective members of the Society were present:
The Chemoinformatics in Europe: Research and Teaching Workshop in
Obernai and the
17th EuroQSAR
Symposium. The participants of both meetings voted in favor of having
Cheminformatics in the name of the Society.
We feel that at this time we should take into account a strong
support for Cheminformatics both in the US (NIH RoadMap) and Europe
(Obernai) as well as the history of the society and strong interest of
its current members in furthering the field of QSAR.
We look forward to working with you to further the mission of our
Society as the only international society focused on advancing the
cheminformatics and QSAR research discipline.
Tudor I. Oprea, Chair and Alex Tropsha, Vice-ChairLast Updated: April
5, 2007 |
