Dear Friends and Colleagues:

ICAR is going to Asia! The 25^th International Conference on Antiviral Research will be held in Sapporo, Japan, at the Hotel Royton Sapporo and co-hosted by the International Society for Antiviral Research (ISAR) and the Japanese Association for Antiviral Therapy (JAAT) with generous support from the Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association of Japan (FPMAJ). The Conference will begin on Monday, April 16, 2012 and end on Thursday, April 19, 2012 with an Interactive Workshop titled "Drug Discovery and Development 101”, the opening ICAR keynote presentation and welcoming reception and end with the closing banquet.

The ICAR provides an interdisciplinary forum at which investigators involved in basic, applied, and clinical research worldwide can meet to communicate and review recent developments in all areas of antiviral research and development. Specific topics to be covered in the program include medicinal chemistry, new target identification, molecular virology, biochemistry, and mechanisms of action and viral resistance, assay development, in vitro evaluation, animal models, pharmacokinetics, toxicology, and clinical trials. Within these areas of interest, there will be invited overview speakers, oral presentations, and poster presentations.

The meeting provides a truly interdisciplinary view of cutting-edge antiviral drug research and development that will be of interest to chemists, biologists, and clinicians.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Registration fees:

Registration for JAAT members will open on January 9