ABOUT THE IABCR

The International Association for Breast Cancer Research (IABCR) is an independent, international, non-governmental organization. The purpose of the Association is to advance the progress of research directed toward the effective control of breast cancer by stimulating basic and clinical breast cancer research.

Toward this end, the Association engages in activities, which include:

  • The organization of an international conference on breast cancer approximately every two years which will bring clinical and basic researchers together.
  • The encouragement of cooperation among organizations and individuals for the purpose of advancing the progress of breast cancer research.
  • The preparation and dissemination of expert and authoritative information to various members of the world community on matters relating to breast cancer.

Although IABCR was officially founded in 1983 in Denver Co, USA, its establishment was preceded by a series of symposia and conferences on breast cancer in man and experimental animals that were started already in 1955 and is therefore the oldest breast cancer research organization.

List of Meetings of the IABCR and its Predecessors

1955
First International Symposium on Mammary cancer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, organized by Otto Mühlbock

1957
International Symposium on Mammary Cancer, Perugia, Italy

1962
International Symposium on MTV, Berkeley, California, USA, organized by De Ome

1964
Lillian Babbitt Hyde Foundation Conference on the Mammary Tumor Virus, Iverness, CA, USA, organized by Kenneth De Ome and Dan Moore

1967
IVth Mammary Tumor Virus Conference, Noordwijk aan Zee, The Netherlands, organized by Otto Mühlbock and Peter Bentvelzen

1970
Vth Mammary Tumor Virus Conference, Houston, TX, USA, organized by Leon Dmochowski

1971
VIth Symposium on Mammary Cancer, Cherry Hill , NJ, USA, organized by Dan B. Moore

1972
VIIth Symposium on Mammary Cancer in Animals and Man Lyon, France. organized by Jacqueline Moriquand

1973
VIIIth Meeting on Mammary Cancer in Experimental Animals and Man, Airlie House, VA. USA

1974
IXth Meeting on Mammary Cancer in Experimental Animals and Man, Pisa, Italy, organized by Francesco Squartini and Leon Dmochowski

1976
Xth Meeting on Mammary Cancer ill Experimental Animals and Man, Kobe, Japan, organized by Yoshihiko Tsubura

1978
XIth Meeting on Mammary Cancer in Experimental Animals and Man, Detroit, USA, organized by Michael Brennan and Marvin Rich

1980
XIIth Meeting on Mammary Cancer in Experimental animals and Man, Maastricht, The Netherlands, organized by Phiny Hageman and Jo Hilgers

1983
International Association for Breast Cancer Research (IABCR). Denver, CO, USA, organized by Marvin Rich and Jean Hager

1985
International Association for Breast Cancer Research. London, England, organized by Joyce Taylor-Papadimitriou
1987
International Association for Breast Cancer Research Miami, FL, USA, organized by Diana Lopez

1989
International Association for Breast Cancer Research. Tel- Aviv, Israel, organized by lafa Kydar

1991
International Association for Breast Cancer Research, St Vincent, Italy, organized by Gianni Bussolati

1993
International Association for Breast Cancer Research Banff, Alberta, Canada, organized by Alan Lees

1994
International Association for Breast Cancer Research, Sendai, Japan, organized by Rikiya Abe and Noriaki Ohuchi

1996
International Association for Breast Cancer Research, Paris, France, organized by Fabien Calvo, Michel Crépin and Henri Magdelenat

1998
International Association for Breast Cancer Research, Athens, Greece, organized by Lydia Ioannidou-Mouzaka

2001
International Association for Breast Cancer Research, Düsseldorf, Germany, organized by Ursula Koldovsky

2003
24th International Association for Breast Cancer Research, Sacramento, Ca. USA. Organized by Robert Cardiff

2005
25th International Association for Breast Cancer Research, Montreal, Canada, Organized by William Muller

2008
26th Congress of the International Association for Breast Cancer Research, Kurashiki, Yokohama, Japan

2010
27th HUGO-IABCR Congress, Biopolis, Singapore, organized by Kartiki Vasant Desai and Edison Liu

2012
28th IABCR / Breakthrough Breast Cancer Conference, Manchester, UK, organized by Rob Clark

2014
29th IABCR / National Breast cancer Foundation Conference, Sydney, Australia, organized by Chris Ormandy

2016
30th International Association for Breast Cancer Research Conference, Portland, OR, USA, hosted by the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, organized by Joe W. Gray

The Board

An elected Board of Governors is responsible for the governance and management of the affairs of the IABCR. The members of the board elect a chairman who presides all meetings of the board and a secretary general who runs the daily affairs of the association. Dr William Muller, McGill University, Canada is the present Chairman of the Board and Dr Christine Watson, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK is the present Secretary General.