【URL】 http://www.eurpepsoc.com/【组织简介】 The European Peptide Society was founded in 1989 primarily in order to ensure that the valuable but informal European Peptide Symposia should be continued on a sound basis. The Statutes state that it is a non-profit association established for the public benefit to promote in Europe and in certain neighbouring countries the advancement of education and in particular the scientific study of the chemistry, biochemistry, and biology of peptides. Its most important activity is the organisation in Europe of the biennial international symposium, (26th symposium, Montpellier 2000) which regularly attracts about 1000 participants from all over the world. The Proceedings are published bienially. Although the early symposia (from 1958 onwards) were necessarily devoted largely to the development of chemical methods for the synthesis of peptides, the programmes now extend to the biology of peptides, and include, for example, structure-activity relationships, con formational studies, peptide vaccines, and the immunology of peptides. The Society also supports financially smaller local meetings and workshops. The Society has a membership of about 1300 (from some 30 countries) who pay no subscription at present. The principle was established at the outset that there would be no subscription in order to ensure that all peptide scientists in Europe would be able to enrol. ChairmanProf. Raniero RocchiDipartimento di Chimica OrganicaUniversità Degli StudiVia Marzolo, 135131 PadovaITALYInt. Fax: +39 49 827 5239SecretaryDr. John S. DaviesDepartment of ChemistryUniversity of Wales, SwanseaSingleton ParkSwanseaSA2 8PPU.K.Int. Fax: +44 1792 295747