The idea of promoting the atherosclerotic research in India by bringing together the basic scientists and cardiologists was germinated in a hotel at Mumbai (then Bombay) in July 1987 under the able co-ordination of late Prof. R N Chakravarti, Prof. P A Kurup, Dr (Mrs) S P Taskar and Dr Chatterjee. There were many eminent scientists and clinicians including Prof. S Dwivedi , Prof. G Subramanyam, Prof. ME Yeolekar, Prof. P R Sudhakaran , Prof. Rama Gopalan and Prof. D K Srivastava etc., to witness the genesis of a society to bring up the experimental atherosclerosis to the lime light under the banner of “Indian Society for Atherosclerosis Research (ISAR)” with its own bylaws.