Member Account Access
Companies who have donated funds to the ICS web site
Policy and Objectives
The declared policy of The Society is "to provide, support and encourage all areas of carotenoid science, pure and applied, academic and commercial, research and educational."
More specific objectives identified are:
- To stimulate and promote contacts and cooperation between carotenoid workers in different parts of the world and different areas of the carotenoid field
- To promote multi-disciplinary cooperation to tackle major problems
- To promote education, communication, exchange of ideas and expertise
- To provide help and advice to new and younger researchers entering the carotenoid field and to those in poorer countries.
As a truly international and independent organization, The Society will seek to increase public awareness of the carotenoid field and of exciting new advances, and to provide reasoned, authoritative statements on controversial matters.
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Upcoming Conferences
The next Conference on Food Pigments will be held in Budapest, 20-24 June, 2010.
For more information click to visit the conference website here:
Macular Carotenoids & AMD, 2011
A conference for macular carotenoid researchers, exploring up-to-date and evidence-based hypotheses and the supporting research data into the role of the macular carotenoids in age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Downing College, University of Cambridge, UK 12 – 15 July 2011. Click to visit the conference website: http://suzy-howes.co.uk/macularcarotenoids/index.html
The 16th International Symposium on Carotenoids will be held in July 2011 in the World Heritage city of Krakow, Poland. Professor Kazimierz Strzalka at the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University will be hosting this Symposium. Professor Strzalka and the local organizing committee will be creating a web site dedicated to the 2011 Symposium in the upcoming months
