Welcome to ISNS
Welcome to the website of the International Society for Neonatal Screening (ISNS).
This society is aiming to advance screening for neonatal and infant sicknesses and disorders, worldwide. Please read its vision and mission, respectively.
ISNS has around 400 members in more than 70 different countries. Most members have a professional (para)medical background but a few are involved in parents or patients advocacy groups.
For more information about ISNS visit the ISNS-Info section (see here).
ISNS welcomes new members who have demonstrated an active interest in neonatal screening.
ISNS welcomes its sustaining corporate members
News for Members
2026 Membership renewal
It's time to consider the status of your ISNS membership.
1.How do you know if you need to renew? Quite easy! Please log in with your username (=email address) and password.
a.If you see the payment page you can opt to pay for 1 year (2026), 2 years (2026+2027), or 3 years (2026+2027+2028).
Paying for multiple years entitles you to a discount of some 8-9% and in addition, it is easier for the ISNS Office.
Please note that we do not send a payment confirmation or receipt of money UNLESS you request it by sending an email to office-manager@isns-neoscreening.org
b. If you do NOT see the payment page it means that you already paid for 2026 (and perhaps also for later years). In that case you do not have to take any action.
2.Is your account still up to date?
Please log in and check the profile by clicking on the icon at the far right hand side of the top line. An essential item is a correct email address. If you find that the ISNS database has an error, please correct it and send an email to office-manager@isns-neoscreening.org as well.
3.Any question, remark, suggestion? Send an email to office-manager@isns-neoscreening.org
News for Members
If you paid your membership dues and still do not receive the ISNS Newsletter please notify the ISNS Office (E: office-manager@isns-neoscreening.org).
If you change your email address please notify the ISNS Office (E: office-manager@isns-neoscreening.org).
Hot topics for members
ISNS Renewed 2025 General Guidelines for Neonatal Bloodspot Screening
The ISNS has provided neonatal screening guidelines for many years and here presents the renewed 2025 General Guidelines for Neonatal Bloodspot Screening in International Journal of Neonatal Screening.
Website: https://lnkd.in/ejjjiyek
PDF Version: https://lnkd.in/eNdH4iCy
These guidelines are intended to provide a framework for screening programs to develop specific policies around all aspects of the newborn screening system, offering the basic set of items for consideration. These guidelines provide trusted anchors to build, expand, or maintain robustly organized neonatal or newborn screening (NBS) programs and a checklist to evaluate and improve the essential elements of those programs. For starting or developing programs, it is a set of elements for which provisions need to be in place and a checklist of items that the screening program should at a minimum have provisions for. The publication of these guidelines is meant as a starting point for interactive discussion, to further improve this document and expand where necessary. We hope these guidelines proof their value for years to come.
Recipients of the 2024 ISNS Awards
ISNS Council received and considered the value of a number of nominations. After careful deliberations Council members voted for
Dr Roberto Giugliani, Hospital de Clinicas, Porto Allegre, Brazil, as the recipient of the 2024 ISNS/Revvity Guthrie Award and
Dr Austin Pickens, CDC, Atlanta, USA, as the recipient of the 2024 ISNS/Bio-Rad Dussault Medal for young investigators.
ISNS congratulates both colleagues and expects to hand over the awards at the next ISNS international symposium in 2026.!
The next APHL Newborn Screening Symposium will take place in New Orleans (LA), USA, October 10-14, 2026.
For details please see www.aphl.org/nbs2026.
About
Two historic, very interesting, videos on PKU now available!
The Laboratory of Newborn Screening of Catalonia from Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (Spain), via Dr Ana Argudo-Ramírez, kindly made available to ISNS two historic videos.
The first one shows the original bacterial inhibition assay method for PKU, galactosemia etc. using the Phillips Punch Index Machine. This video was acquired and brought to Barcelona in 1968 by Prof. Juan Sabaté Tobella who was doing a training in the laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he learned the Guthrie method with Dr. Vivian Shi, director of the laboratory.
The second one concerns a TV show about PKU presented by Dr. Leonard Taitz, possibly made in the '80s.
If the videos will not open in your usual webbrowser please try another one.
Please see
https://aecom.com.es/fenilalanina-medir-metodo-dr-guthrie/
and
https://aecom.com.es/pku-progrrama-tv/
Hot topics for members
Historical Appreciation of World Health Organization’s Public Health Paper-34: Principles and Practice of Screening for Disease, by Max Wilson and Gunnar Jungner
Peter C. J. I. Schielen
Very well worth reading!
International Journal of Neonatal Screening (IJNS)
IJNS is the official journal of the International Society for Neonatal Screening (ISNS). IJNS is also the official journal of the German Society for Neonatal Screening (DGNS), the Japanese Society for Neonatal Screening (JSNS), the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)–Newborn Screening & Genetics Program and the UK Newborn Screening Laboratory Network (UKNSLN).
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/IJNS/about
The 2024 CiteScore metrics have been released on Scopus, with IJNS ranked 32nd out of 342 journals in the category 'Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health,' placing it in the top 10% of the field. We sincerely thank International Society for Neonatal Screening, our editorial board, authors, reviewers, and readers for their continued supports.
In addition:
Open Access: free for readers, with article processing charges (APC)
paid by authors or their institutions.
High Visibility: indexed within Scopus, ESCI (Web of Science), PubMed,
PMC, Embase, and other databases.
Case reports: this journal publishes a section with well prepared case
reports.
Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 28.8 days after submission.
Please consider IJNS for your next manuscript submission!!! ISNS members receive a 20% discount of the publication cost by indicating the ISNS membership in the cover letter.
Worldwide members
The location of members worldwide as of Jan. 1, 2024, is shown in the picture on the right. Countries/states with at least one member are shown in blue, others in grey.
How do I become a member?
Please read this and subsequently click on the button Member application.
Why should I join as a member?
As a member you are entitled to see the privileged pages containing specific news items, a monthly neonatal screening literature service and a discount to ISNS-related conferences. Under certain conditions you may apply for travel grants to such conferences. Having access to the on line membership directory you have easier access to other members sharing specific interests.
ISNS Journal
The ISNS supervises a journal, the International Journal of Neonatal Screening, published by MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
For information, please follow this link.
Members are stimulated to use this journal for their publications.
