The training day organised one Sunday in 1953, for the few pharmacists interested in medical testing, has transformed itself over the last half a century into the most important European event dedicated to clinical laboratory science!

JIB is now in its 50th year! During that time our practice has developed incredibly and the Journées Internationales de Biologie has been there throughout. The technology has evolved considerably. Our occupation is today a fully-fledged discipline in the health care field and in some cases has led to extreme specialisation.

This golden jubilee commemorates only a stage in the continual development of clinical laboratory industry. Without distancing themselves from the patient, clinical laboratory professionals are ever adapting to the service they devote themselves to the whole year.

JIB continually meets the demands of our profession. The constant increase in visitor attendance from France and abroad, the recognition of the event by private and hospital laboratory professionals, the quality and importance of our partners, suppliers and lecturers, have enabled JIB to gain an international reputation.

Originally, we were hoping that JIB would become the meeting point for all the players in clinical laboratory science. Today we can say it is, since laboratory secretaries have joined the biologists, suppliers, technicians and students.

I will be waiting for you with immense joy at this 50th JIB.
May it be a profitable event for you, an event that once again enables the world of diagnostics to meet up convivially for new challenges, new successes.

Yours,

Jean Benoit
President of the Syndicat des Biologistes