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The International Biochemistry of Exercise Conference (IBEC) is a unique event in the world of science. The first conference was held in 1968 and second in 1973. Thereafter, every three years exercise scientists, whose passion is exercise biochemistry and in other new disciplines, such as exercise molecular biology, exercise “omics”, and exercise health, met somewhere in the world to exchange scientific presentations and ideas. IBEC is unique in that various small groups of people volunteer to organize, administrate, and raise funds travel for their selected program of speakers to their home city. The 18th IBEC in Toronto will follow in the footsteps of the previous 17 conferences.

Jacques R. Poortmans (1933-2022)
Jacques R. Poortmans, PhD, professor at the Free University of Brussels (ULB, Belgium) died on February 26, 2022. He was the founding father of the International Biochemistry of Exercise Conferences. He organized the first edition in Belgium in 1968 and he chaired the International Research Group in Biochemistry of Exercise from its creation until 2006. The achievement initiated by prof. Jacques R. Poortmans is going on for more than 50 years, a remarkable legacy that he leaves to the next generations of scientists. In his memory the members of the group decided that henceforth the lecture given by the winner of the honor award will be called the Poortmans Lecture. The first one will be given by prof. Mark Hargreaves (University of Melbourne, Australia) in Toronto on May, 28.
In memoriam J.R. Poortmans here
Cities having hosted IBEC
Brussels (Belgium) 1968
Macolin (Switzerland) 1973
Quebec (Canada) 1976
Brussels (Belgium) 1979
Boston (USA) 1982
Copenhagen (Denmark) 1985
London (Canada) 1988
Nagoya (Japan) 1991
Aberdeen (United Kingdom) 1994
Sydney (Australia) 1997
Little Rock (USA) 2000
Maastricht (The Netherlands) 2003
Seoul (South-Korea) 2006
Guelph (Canada) 2009
Stockholm (Sweden) 2012
Sao Paolo (Brasil) 2015
Beijing (China) 2018
Toronto (Canada) 2022
Cities having hosted International Courses
Fiuggi (Italy) 1979
Nice (France) 1982
Athens (Greece) 1985
Lisbon (Portugal) 1992
Beijing (China) 1995
Maastricht (The Netherlands) 1999