NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
the 40th Annual General Meeting of The British Society of Toxicological Pathology (BSTP) will be held on Thursday, 13th November 2025. The Annual General Meeting will be held as a virtual meeting.
This year’s AGM is anything but business as usual!
We’ve got something special lined up for this year's AGM – a fantastic guest and a session you won’t want to miss.
We have invited Professor Ruth Roberts – scientist, disruptor, and all-around legend in drug development - to take us on a wild ride through the future of drug testing, showing how organs-on-a-chip, AI simulations, and other sci-fi-sounding tech are flipping the script on drug testing. Ruth held senior roles at AstraZeneca, Aventis, and ICI, co-founded ApconiX, and now chairs Drug Discovery at the University of Birmingham. With over 140 publications and a shelf full of awards, most recently the King’s Award for Innovation, Ruth is certainly not afraid to shake things up and share with us her vision for the future. The AGM will start with her talk titled: “Animal-Free Testing for Drug Development – A Vision for the Future”, followed by a debate on the strategic and interpretive value of the comparative/experimental pathologist skillset when embracing this evolving landscape (total duration: 1 hour).
Amendments to the BSTP Constitution
The BSTP Council proposes amendments to the BSTP Constitution. Amendments to the Constitution need to be approved at the Annual General Meeting.
The amended Constitution is available here for your review. You may refer to the previous version here. If you have any objections or questions, please contact the Honorary Secretary (membership@bstp.org.uk) as soon as possible.
2024 Meeting minutes
The 2024 Annual General Meeting minutes are available here. If you have any comments or questions, please contact the Honorary Secretary (membership@bstp.org.uk) as soon as possible.
Draft Audited Accounts
The 2024-2025 Draft Audited Accounts are available here.
Registration
All members of the Society are entitled to attend.
Date: Thursday, 13th November 2025
Time: 14:00-16:00 (GMT / London time)
Attendees will be able to join the meeting remotely. The Zoom link will be sent out to registered attendees shortly.
ATTENDANCE IS FREE: To register your attendance for the AGM, please complete a quick online booking via mySociety: https://my.bstp.org.uk/item.php?eventid=2
Agenda
- Presentation by Prof. Ruth Roberts: Animal-Free Testing for Drug Development – A Vision for the Future
- Minutes of 39th Annual General Meeting of the Society held as a hybrid meeting on 14th November 2024
- BSTP Council for 2024-2025
- Report from Council and Honorary Secretary Update
- Approval of the amended Constitution for the British Society of Toxicological Pathology (BSTP)
- Treasurer’s Report and Statement of Accounts
- Report of Education Subcommittee
- Sustainability and Social media Update
- Presentations and Awards
- Any Other Business
The BSTP shall in each year hold an Annual General Meeting at such time and place as the Council shall determine. Not more than 15 months shall elapse between the date of one Annual General Meeting and the next.
The Society will have one Annual General Meeting a year to conduct the general business of the Society including:
- Consideration of the report of the Council on the previous year’s work and the audited or examined financial statements;
- Consideration of any resolution proposed by the Council; or on the requisition of not less than 3 members of the Society having the right to vote at an Annual General Meeting, provided that the requisition is received by the secretary not less than 30 days before the meeting.
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Every two years the business of the Annual General meeting shall additionally include:
- The election of members of Council for the coming two years;
- The election of a President, Junior Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer for the coming two years;
- Appointment of an auditor or independent examiner.
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An Extraordinary General Meeting shall be convened with at least 30 days notice by the Council or by 10% of Ordinary Members giving written notice to the Honorary Secretary with reasons for convening the meeting.
A notice of all meetings will be delivered to all members at least 30 days before the date of the meeting PROVIDED that accidental failure to notify any member shall not invalidate the meeting and PROVIDED that a general meeting called with shorter notice shall be deemed to be valid if so agreed and 95% of all members entitled to attend vote thereat. The notice shall include the date place and time of the meeting and details of any resolutions to be passed.
