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2024 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 2024, or 2024+2025, or 2024+2025+2026.
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 2024 (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

IPIC2025. First announcement. Please see www.ipic2025.com

Honouring Prof Zhengyan Zhao
Prof Zhengyan Zhao, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China has been the driving force behind the development of NBS in China for more than 30 years. ISNS Council decided to honour him with a special plaquette commemorating his tremendous achievements.
The plaquette was presented to him by ISNS Vice President Dr Dianne Webster and ISNS Office Manager, Dr Peter Schielen, at the recent Fourth National Congress of Genetic Screening for Neonatal Diseases, Shanghai, China. See here
July 3, 2024

The WHO/World Health Assembly adopts resolution
A77/A/CONF./5 "Accelerate progress towards reducing maternal, newborn and child mortality in order to achieve Sustainable Development Goal targets 3.1 and 3.2"
June 21, 2024

2023 ISNS Awards recipients
The recipient of the 2023 ISNS/Revvity Guthrie Award is Dr Ralph Fingerhut, Weiden, Germany.
The recipient of the 2023 ISNS/Bio-Rad Dussault Medal is Dr Kristin Kernohan, Ottawa (ON), Canada.
ISNS congratulates them!
Biosketches of these colleagues will be published shortly.

Updated worldwide overview on NBS - Sept 2023
Please see here some slides based on info collected from various sources and (industrial) partners.

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/

Worldwide overview of NBS
Dr.Brad Therrell and a number of co-authors compiled the current situation concerning NBS worldwide.
A lengthy publication in the International Journal of Neonatal Screening (IJNS) but a MUST-READ for ISNS members !!
Please follow this link
June 29, 2024

XIII Congress of the Latin American Society of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Newborn Screening
Punta del Este, Uruguay, October 22 – 25, 2024.
For details, please see: https://sleimpn-2024.org/
May 9, 2024

2024 APHL Newborn Screening Symposium,
This event, which is co-sponsored by ISNS, will be held in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, Oct 20-24.
For details please see here
For abstract submission please see here
For travel grants please see the news item below. 

ISNS Travel grants for the APHL/ISNS conference in Omaha
ISNS has a few possibilities for financial support of its members to travel to ISNS-endorsed or -co-organised conferences. The membership is informed via the Newsletter. Applicants need to fill in a form and the ISNS Executive decides on the amount of the grant. One of the conditions is that the awardee supplies a written report on his/her learning experiences.

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.

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.