COMMITTEES & HISTORY
ISP History
The International Society for Pathophysiologisy (ISP) is a non-governmental and non-profit organization, uniting specialists of experimental physiology, clinical medicine and modern biology who work in the fields of human and animal pathology from more than 50 countries around the World. The goals of the ISP are to support research and teaching, to promote international collaboration and exchange and to contribute in cooperation with other scientific societies to better health for humans and animals. The ISP holds its International Congress every four years, starting first in Moscow, Russia (1990) followed by Kyoto, Japan (1994), Lahti, Finland (1998), Budapest, Hungary (2002) and Beijing, China (2006). As part of ISP 2006 in Beijing, members elected Professor Qide Han, China, as President and Professor Youyi Zhang, China, as Secretary General of the Society for the current four-year period (2006-2010). “Pathophysiology” is the official Journal of ISP with Editor-in-Chief Professor Osmo Hanninen, Kuopio, Finland. For more details, see www.ispathophysiology.org
SHR History
It is the innovative mind and remarkable discoveries of Professor Kozo Okamoto that launched the field of experimental hypertension. During his 60 years of professional excellence and in collaboration with colleagues such as Yukio Yamori, Aritomo Suzuki and Tsuneyuki Suzuki, Professor Okamoto contributed greatly to the advances in modern pathophysiology of this disease by creating spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs), stoke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSPs) and malignant stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (M-SHRSPs). The SHR is one of the best models of essential hypertension due to its close clinical and pathological correlation to the disease in humans. In addition to scientific distinction and honors from all the major academic centers of the
world, Professor Okamoto promoted the internationalization of his discoveries
by donating SHRSPs as well as SHRs to over 400 research institutions around
the globe. Today, these rats are present in the research of no less than 22 countries and over 300 papers are published every year on experimental hypertension. At the 12th International Symposium in Kyoto, 2006, the spontaneously hypertensive rat celebrated its 35th anniversary since its inception in Kyoto in 1971.
ISP Organizing Committee Executive |
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| President | Pavel Hamet, Montréal CANADA |
| Secretary-Treasurer | Michel L. Tremblay, Montréal CANADA |
| Program Chair | Johanne Tremblay, Montréal CANADA |
| Workshop Coordinator | Sergei N. Orlov, Montréal CANADA Peter Liu, Toronto CANADA Bruce McManus, Vancouver CANADA |
| Members | Michel Bouvier, Montréal CANADA |
International Committee |
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| International Committee Chair | Allen W. Cowley, Milwaukee USA |
| President of ISP | Qide Han, Beijing CHINA |
| Members | Kayode Oke Adeniyi, Boroko, NEW GUINEA |
International SHR Symposium Organizing Committee |
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| Chair | Pavel Hamet, Montréal CANADA |
| Co-Chair | Kazuaki Shimamoto, Sapporo JAPAN |
| Secretary | Ondřej Šeda, Montréal CANADA |
| Program Chair | Johanne Tremblay, Montréal CANADA |
| Members | Tim J. Aitman, London, UK |