President's Message

September, 15 2010

Dear TIAFT members,

Many of us have now returned home after attending a most successful TIAFT meeting in Bonn.

With over 500 attendees from 50 countries including many from industry and almost 4 days of scientific presentations and posters I'm sure all of you who attended found it a very well organized event.

The social program was also spectacular and showcased the beauty and hospitability of the region. Thank you to Frank Musshoff and Hans Maurer and the staff of their respective laboratories and the wider organizing and scientific committees including Thomas Kraemer and Frank Peters for the scientific program and to Stefan Toennes for the web content. I would also like to thank again all of the sponsors and exhibitors that helped make this meeting such a success. We all look forward to next year in San Francisco late September 2011 with the combined meeting with SOFT.

Five toxicologists from developing countries attended the meeting after receiving travel scholarships from TIAFT. These were:

• Isabel Kazanga - Malawi
• Gafer Ahmed - Egypt
• Tangbanleubal Chalongkwan - Thailand
• Mariza Insaurralde - Paraguay
• Flavia Thiesen - Brazil

Congratulations to the winners of our awards and prizes.

• Marilyn Huestis - Allan Curry Award
• Simona Pichini - Achievement Award
• Gisela Skopp - Best article in Bulletin award

Young Scientist Awards

• Best oral:
  Dirk Wissenbach. Saarland University, Department of Experimental & Clinical Toxicology, Homburg (Saar), Germany
• Best poster:
  Simon Beuck. German Sport University Cologne, Center for Preventive Doping Research, Germany
• Best paper:
  Rafael Linden. Universidade Feevale, Instituto de Ciencias da Saude, Novo Hamburgo, RS, Brazil

Springer Award (Poster):
Nahoko Uchiyama. National Institue of Health Sciences. Tyo, Japan

Thank you to those who attended the business meeting. The meeting voted to hold the 2014 meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Congratulations to Oscar Locani and Luis Ferrari for preparing this bid with their colleagues in Latin America. The meeting also approved to raise the annual dues to USD50 (from next year). The additional amount will be used to support our expanding developing countries program.

In the next letter I will detail some of the other activities planned by the TIAFT board for the coming year.

Olaf Drummer
TIAFT President

Olaf H. Drummer PhD(med) ARCPA MRACI CChem
Head (Forensic & Scientific Services)
Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine
Adjunct Professor,
Department of Forensic Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Monash University, 57-83 Kavanagh Street, Southbank, 3006, AUSTRALIA
e-mail: olaf@vifm.org