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The Association for Chemoreception Sciences is an international professional society in the field of chemosensory science. It is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote and advance the interests of the science of senses such as taste and smell.[2]: 32 In order to do this, it holds an annual meeting that is a scientific forum[3] for the research community[4][5] and also provides outreach to the public about olfaction (smell), gustation (taste) and chemesthesis (trigeminal chemosensation).
| Headquarters | Glenview, IL, U.S. |
|---|---|
Membership | 600 |
President | Paul Breslin[1] (2023–2024) |
| Website | achems |
The association was founded in 1978 by Maxwell M. Mozell, a neuroscientist at the State University of New York, with the help of a grant from the National Science Foundation.[2]: 31 The first research meeting was held in Sarasota, Florida, in April 1979.[6] Officers elected at the first meeting included Linda Bartoshuk, Rose Marie Pangborn and Gary Beauchamp.[7]
A meeting is held in April of each year that is attended by an international cohort of physicians and scientists.[2]: 31 This annual meeting consists of presentations on olfaction, gustation, and chemesthesis, as well as workshops sponsored by the National Institute of Health.[8] Commercial exhibitors also attend the event.[9] The organization has enjoyed strong support from the National Institute on Deafness and Communicative Disorders.[10] and its director.[11] In collaboration with two other scientific societies focused on the chemical senses – the European Chemosensory Research Organization and the Japanese Association for the Study of Taste and Smell – AChemS alternates as host of the quadrennial International Symposium for Olfaction and Taste. The last AChemS-hosted ISOT meeting took place in Portland, Oregon in August, 2020.[12]
In 2004, AChemS member Linda Buck and Richard Axel were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system".[13] To celebrate this honor, at the 2005 AChemS annual meeting, Buck and Axel were keynote speakers,[14] recapping their research published in the journal Cell in 1991,[15] which led to the Nobel award.
Chemical Senses, the official journal of the association, is published by Oxford University Press. The editor is Dr. Steven Munger; it was edited by Maxwell Mozell from 1992 until 1998.[2]: 32
The Association gives a series of annual awards, including the Max Mozell Award, the Barry Jacobs Memorial Award,[16] the Ajinomoto Award,[17] and the Polak Young Investigator Award.[18] Travel awards are also given to diverse and young scientists to encourage their attendance at the meeting.[19]
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