Welcome Message

Welcome Message

I am pleased to announce that I have been appointed as the President of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Toxicologic Pathology. The meeting will be held on January 25 (Wed.) and 26 (Thu.), 2023, in Tower Hall Funabori (Edogawa-ku, Tokyo) in a hybrid format that will allow participants to attend both on-site and online. In addition, the 35th Slide Conference and the Commentary Session of the latest JSTP Diplomate Examination will be held on Tuesday, January 24.

The theme of the conference is "The Challenge of Toxicologic Pathology: Inheritance of Tradition and Innovation for the Next Generation". Toxicologic Pathology is the study of evaluating the risks of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, food-related substances, and environmental chemicals to humans by using morphological methods based on an academic system of accumulating scientific findings developed over many years. Toxicologic Pathology is also characterized by the ability to use various related techniques as needed to add precision to morphological assessments and to cut into toxicological mechanisms. The Japanese Society of Toxicologic Pathology was established for the evolution and development of Toxicologic Pathology, and has produced many important study findings and contributed both academically and socially. In recent years, Toxicologic Pathology has needed to develop not only the development of pathological evaluation methods for new modalities, but also in new areas such as the elucidation of toxicological mechanisms incorporating imaging and spatial gene expression analysis techniques, and the challenge of improving human extrapolation using Genome Editing Technology. By setting the above theme, this scientific meeting will introduce new technologies that are expected to play a role in the future of Toxicologic Pathology and evolving risk assessment based on the tradition, along with efforts related to the inheritance of the tradition of Toxicologic Pathology that has been cultivated over the years. We also aim to contribute to the development of a creative academic field.

We hope this meeting will allow our members to actively present the results of their daily research and engage in a lively exchange of ideas and opinions. We look forward to your active participation.

The 39th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Toxicologic Pathology
President Makoto Shibutani, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Professor, Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology