Our Story
Before ICSA was ECSA
Before being International, ICSA was aimed at European scientists and was initially known as ECSA, the European Cell Senescence Association.
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ECSA was founded by Prof Dot Bennett in 2012. Feeling that the topic was really important and needed its own society, Prof Bennett set up the first group in February 2012 as a mailing list, with just 14 member. Word spread rapidly and by the time of the first ECSA conference in June 2013 (Cambridge, England), there were over 80 members and ~200 people attended the conference.
When ECSA became ICSA
ECSA Founder, Dot Bennett, was elected as the First President in 2013. The first Steering Committee was formed and a Constitution was written.
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By the second meeting in Santiago de Compostella (Spain) in 2015, there were over 350 members from all over the World. It was then decided to change the name to ICSA (International Cell Senescence Association). The website cellsenescence.info was created.
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