Parts of this article (those related to Upcoming Annual Meetings) need to be updated.(November 2016) |
Founded | 1950 |
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Founder | Charles Leblond, Ralph D. Lillie, Edward Dempsey |
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Members | 300 |
Key people | Alejandro P. Adam: President Kendra LaDuca: Executive Director Scott Tanner: Secretary/Treasurer A. Sally Davis: President-Elect |
Website | www.histochemicalsociety.org |
The Histochemical Society[1] (HCS) is an academic society that was founded on March 24, 1950 at a meeting organized by Ralph D. Lillie[2] of the National Institutes of Health. The idea for the Society arose during the 1949 Biological Stain Commission meeting at which a symposia encompassing anatomy, cytology, pathology and biochemistry was proposed by Lillie, Charles Leblond and Edward Dempsey.[3] Lillie became the first editor of HCS's journal, Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry.
The Society is an interdisciplinary body of cell biologists, pathologists, anatomists, biochemists, and neuroscientists. HCS's mission[4] is the development and use of visual techniques that provide biochemical and molecular information about the structure and function of cells, tissues and organs and for the dissemination of this knowledge through education and outreach. The Society fulfills its mission through publishing its Journal, the Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, and through the management of annual meetings and short courses.[5]
The Histochemical Society's offices are in Bethesda, Maryland. The Society is a member society of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) and the International Federation of Societies for Histochemistry and Cytochemistry.