The Boston Society Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 2004 as a forum to facilitate education, training, discussion, and scientific activities in support of drug discovery, development and allied topics. We were originally founded as 'Society for Advanced Therapeutics Inc. and did business as 'BSAT'. In December 2008 we formally changed our name to 'The Boston Society Inc.'

We were founded in response to a growing need for an alternative forum for the discussion of applied pharmaceutical research. In the eyes of the founders, major society meetings were often largely academic in focus, while for-profit meetings occasionally lacked strong scientific content and were extremely expensive. In response to this need, the founding members of the Boston Society for Advanced Therapeutics created a society to organize meetings that are industrially focused, while maintaining non-profit status, relevant venue, and correspondingly low rates.

The Boston Society for Advanced Therapeutics (BSAT) was thus founded in September 2004 to provide such a forum to facilitate education, training, discussion, and scientific activities in support of the healthcare community, and to promote and disseminate knowledge of drug discovery. Membership includes scientists involved in every area of research and development from academic, industrial, and governmental laboratories. Their interests include advancement of techniques and instrumentation, synthesis, and the full spectrum of activities necessary to discover and develop a tnovel entities and technologies.