Message from President

Hello, I am Mitsuru Kubota from the Department of General Pediatrics & Interdisciplinary Medicine at the National Center for Child Health and Development, and it is a great honor to be appointed as the President of the 65th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Inherited Metabolic Diseases and the 20th Asian Symposium of Inherited Metabolic Diseases.
The meeting will be held from November 7 to 9, 2024, and the venue will be the Station Conference Tokyo adjacent to Tokyo Station.

I am not a person affiliated with a university, I am a clinician. Of course, I would like to contribute to academic research on rare and intractable diseases, but my focus is always on a patient in front of me. From this perspective, I have chosen "One in a million people is not zero" as the main theme of this year's scientific meeting. I believe that many things can be included in this main theme, such as clinical reasoning for diagnosis, genetic diagnosis, national policies, home care and palliative care, mass screening, and the development of new treatments, including gene therapy. However, I am still concerned about the academic and international aspects if I am alone, so I have asked Dr. Kimihiko Oishi, Professor of Pediatrics, the Jikei University School of Medicine, to serve as Vice President. I am confident that we will be able to hold the meeting from a broad perspective.
We are considering a face-to-face meeting following the Osaka meeting in 2023. We hope that many of you will come to Tokyo and make this a place where we can learn and improve each other face to face. I sincerely hope that this academic meeting will benefit a child and his or her family who may have one in a million rare incurable diseases but is sitting in front of you in his or her mother's arms.