ICE History - Part One

Would you like to learn more about the history of ICE? Each day we will be remembering highlights from ICE meetings from the past 50 years.

Previously held every four years the ISE now works with its member societies to hold a biennial ISE-affiliated ICE meeting in regional rotation therefore allowing for more frequent and geographically diverse exchange of scientific information. Today we cover 1960 – 1972:

ICE 1960, Denmark: Held at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen, the Congress President was Bernado A. Houssay, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1947 for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar.

ICE 1964, London, UK: Held at Imperial College Kensington, Congress President George W Corner said "There is no such person as an endocrinologist pure and simple. A physician or medical scientist calling himself an endocrinologist must be something more...Our gathering is therefore a Congress of more than endocrinology; we might even be justified in calling it the Second International Congress of Endocrinology and All the Other Medical Arts and Sciences!"

ICE 1968, Mexico: Sheldon J. Segal gave the Plenary Lecture entitled "Population Growth. A Challenge to Endocrinology".

ICE 1972, Washington DC, USA: "Endocrinologists coming from the whole world met for the first time in 1960. It is strange that they hesitated so long to gather on an international scale, because endocrinology surely had already an excellent tradition" - Josef Charvat, Honorary President to the Office of the Congress.

View a picture history of all the International Congresses of Endocrinology discussed above on our Flickr site via the link below.

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