The Antibody Society continues its tradition of stimulating our field with its 2011 Annual Meeting.

The Society was formed to broadly further the interests of the antibody, related binder, and associated therapeutics community. The Guidelines and Information About Therapy Experiments (GIATE) initiative has begun to stimulate community involvement in development of guidelines for the safe and thorough development of antibody and related therapeutic agents. The official journal of the Society is PEDS (Protein Engineering, Design and Selection), its therapeutic journal is mAbs, and members receive substantial discounts for journal subscriptions and for registration to our Annual Meeting.

The Society represents this increasingly diverse field by supporting the resources that promote successful engineering of recombinant antibodies, single scaffold binders, related immunobiology, informatics, and therapeutic development. The Society seeks to provide a forum and voice for all aspects of this global field.

By joining The Antibody Society, members will help to support the Society and its goals:

• Reinforce the contribution of meetings in our field, starting with our Annual Meeting
• Establish committees that will assess topics of urgency, such as formulating guidelines for information about antibody therapy experiments (GIATE) that help to ensure the safety of antibody or related therapeutics, from the research lab through preclinical and clinical testing
• Work for development and acceptance of formats for the interoperability of data, databases, informatics and computational resources underpinning this field
• Work for the support, maintenance, and improvement of other critical resources in this field
• Encourage the attraction, training, and funding of students, postdocs, and others in this field, for which we are developing The Antibody Society Research and Education Foundation
• Cooperate with our Board of Distinguished Advisors to broaden our role and impact in the development of this field

For further information on how you and your organization can join The Antibody Society, please visit www.AntibodySociety.org. Graduate students may join at no charge.