Is ours a special time? Have we reached the high-point of Human Genetics? I don’t think that the history of human genetics ends here at all. Brunner 1,2ġ Department of Human Genetics Radboud UMC, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2 Dept of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht UMC, Maastricht, NetherlandsĪt 50 years, the Society of Human Genetics has confidently assumed its current position as a pillar of modern medicine. PL1.2How will the present time in genetics be remembered? H. Jan Mohr (who died in 2009) might have mixed feelings about some of these developments but surely he would agree that this 2017 meeting is the best human genetics conference ever.Ī.
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We now have an annual turnover of over 2 million euros, professional administration through Jerome del Picchia and his team at the Vienna Medical Academy, and an important voice in European and international developments in human genetics.
The society’s journal, the European Journal of Human Genetics, was established shortly afterwards and the modern ESHG was born. Revolutionary moves culminated at the meeting in Leuven in 1991 where a rotating president and officers were elected, and statutes adopted formally incorporating the society under Belgian law. The society gave no financial support for this - it hardly could, with only around 200 members whose subscription was $7.īy 1988 it had become clear that something more was needed if the ESHG was to become a significant force in developing a European human genetics community. Virtually their only function was to nominate somebody each year to organise a symposium on some aspect of human genetics.
There were no elected officers, just a permanent secretary (himself for all those years) and an unchanging 20-member Board. When he agreed with a small group of colleagues to start a European Society of Human Genetics his vision was of a stripped-down organisation with minimal administrative tasks. The first 24 years, up to 1991, were dominated by one man, Professor Jan Mohr of Copenhagen. The story of the ESHG is a story of two halves. In doing this I have drawn heavily on the historical material assembled by Professor Peter Harper, whose articles should be consulted for more detail. I have been asked, on behalf of the Board and Executive of the Society, to start off this year’s conference with a brief look back at how we came to be here. This year the European Society of Human Genetics celebrates the 50 th anniversary of its first meeting, held here in Copenhagen in 1967. PL1 50 years of ESHG PL1.1 A brief history of how we got here A.
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