The International Society of Developmental Biologists (ISDB), formerly the Institut Internationale d'Embryologie (IIE), is a non-profit scientific association promoting

developmental biology Developmental biology is the study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop. Developmental biology also encompasses the biology of Regeneration (biology), regeneration, asexual reproduction, metamorphosis, and the growth and di ...

. The society holds an international Congress every four years, and awards the most prestigious award in the field of developmental biology—the Ross Harrison Prize."About the ISDB"
, International Society of Developmental Biologists. The institute was founded by A. A. W. Hubrecht in 1911 as "a selective society of embryologists who would meet and discuss aspects of comparative embryology".Emily Noël
"The (re)birth of the DSDB"
TheNode.Biologists.com, Feb. 1, 2011. After Hubrecht's death in 1915, the first director was Daniel de Lange; other former presidents have included Etienne Wolf,

Lauri Saxén Lauri may refer to: * Lauri (given name), including a list of people with the name * Lauri (surname), including a list of people with the name * Lauri Ylönen, Finnish singer and lead vocalist of The Rasmus * Lauri, Järva County, village in Türi ...

(1973–77),

Edward M. De Robertis Edward Michael De Robertis (born June 6, 1947) is an American embryologist and Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work has contributed to the finding of conserved molecular processes of embryonic inductions that result in ...

(2002–06),

Masatoshi Takeichi is a Japanese cell biologist known for his identification of the cadherin class of adhesion molecules, which plays important roles in the construction of tissues. He shared the 2005 Japan Prize with Erkki Ruoslahti for "fundamental contributio ...

(2007-2010) and Claudio Stern (2010). The current president is

Philip Ingham Philip William Ingham (born 19 March 1955, Liverpool) is a British geneticist, currently the Toh Kian Chui Distinguished Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, a partnership between Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Im ...

. The IIE, based out of the Hubrecht Institute (aka "Hubrecht Laboratories) in the Netherlands, changed its name in 1968 to the International Society of Developmental Biologists (ISDB). In 1997 the ISDB took over the functions of a parallel organization, the European Developmental Biology Organisation (EDBO), becoming the world umbrella of developmental biology associations. Numerous national societies are currently members of the ISDB, including the

Society for Developmental Biology The Society for Developmental Biology (SDB), originally the Society for the Study of Development and Growth, is an organization for scientists and professionals around the world whose research is focused on the study of the developmental biology, e ...

, the Asia-Pacific Developmental Biology Network, the Australia and New Zealand Society for Cell and Developmental Biology, the British Society of Developmental Biologists, the Finnish Society for Developmental Biology, the French Developmental Biology Society, the German Society of Developmental Biology, the Hong Kong Society for Developmental Biology, the Israel Society for Developmental Biology, the Italian Embryology Group, the Japanese Society for Developmental Biology, the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology, the Portuguese Society for Developmental Biology, and the Spanish Developmental Biology Society.

Prizes and awards

In 1981, the ISDB established the Ross Harrison Prize, the leading award in the field of developmental biology. Winners have included: * 2017 - Claudio Daniel Stern (UCL, London) * 2013 -

Janet Rossant Janet Rossant, (born 13 July 1950) is a developmental biologist well known for her contributions to the understanding of the role of genes in embryo development. She is a leader in developmental biology. Her current research interests focus on ...

* 2009 -

* 2005 -

Elliot Meyerowitz Elliot Meyerowitz (born May 22, 1951) is an American biologist. Career Meyerowitz did his undergraduate work at Columbia University (A.B. in biology, 1973), where he worked part-time in the laboratory of Cyrus Levinthal on combined microscopic a ...

* 2001 -

* 1997 -

Nicole Le Douarin Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (born 20 August 1930) is a developmental biologist known for her studies of chimeras, which have led to critical insights regarding higher animal nervous and immune systems. Le Douarin invented an embryo manipulation ...

* 1993 - Pieter Nieuwkoop * 1989 - Tokindo S. Okada * 1985 - John Gurdon * 1981 -

Viktor Hamburger Viktor Hamburger (July 9, 1900 – June 12, 2001)Garland E. AllenViktor Hamburger, 1900–2001. National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs, 2015, 39 pp. was a German-American professor and embryologist. His collaboration with neuroscie ...

and Donald Brown The ISDB has also established a program of "Fellows", including Abraham Mandel Schechtman (1953), Ethel Browne Harvey, and G. P. Verma (1984).

Notes

Publications

* '' Mechanisms of Development''

References

* "International Society of Developmental Biologists (ISDB)", in Diane Schmidt, Elisabeth B. Davis, Pamela F. Jacobs, ''Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide'', p. 156

External links

International Society of Developmental Biologists
{{Authority control Scientific organizations established in 1911 Organizations established in 1968 Biology organizations Developmental biology