History of the Asian Society for Neuro-Oncology

Ryo Nishikawa The President of the ASNO

To talk about our history, we should go back to the 1st World Federation of Neuro-Oncology (WFNO) Meeting in 2001 in Washington, D.C., USA, which was held just a couple of months after the September 11 tragedy. During the Meeting, Prof. Mitchel S. Berger, UCSF, the President of the 1st WFNO Meeting, encouraged professors Yukitaka Ushio, Kumamoto, Japan, and Masao Matsutani, Saitama, Japan, to establish a neuro-oncology society in Asia. At this business meeting, this was decided that the European society would organize the WFNO Meeting in 2005, and, then, the Asian society should organize the 3rd WFNO Meeting in 2009.

In 2002, we had the memorable 1st meeting of the Asian Society for Neuro-Oncology, in Kumamoto, Japan. The original core member countries were, Korea, China, Taiwan, Turkey, and Japan. Please find a picture of the original central members at the Kumamoto Meeting. Since then, we have had 16 meetings as shown. In 2009 the 6th meeting was held together with the 3rd WFNO Meeting, in Yokohama, Japan. In 2020 and 2021, the Meetings was cancelled because of the pandemic. In 2022, we will have the 17th Meeting in Seoul, Korea, together with the 6th WFNOS Meeting.

(from left to right) Drs. Jian-Hong Zhu (China), Yukitaka Ushio (President of the 1st ASNO Meeting in Japan), Kaya Aksoy (President of the 5th ASNO Meeting in Turkey), Jong-Hyun Kim (President of the 2nd ASNO Meeting in Korea), Masao Matsutani (President of the 6th ASNO Meeting in Japan), Tai-Tong Wong (President of the 4th ASNO Meeting in Taiwan), Sang-Hue Yen (Taiwan), Sang Won Lee (Korea)

ASNO Congresses