Following the immense success of the previous AFLAS Congress Meeting held in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur in 2012 and 2014 respectively, it is with great pride, honour and pleasure that I welcome you, on behalf of both the AFLAS Council and Singapore Association for Laboratory Animal Science (SALAS) organizing committees (Planning & Scientific) to the 7th Asian Federation of Laboratory Animal Sciences Associations Congress Meeting here in Singapore, widely known as “Garden City” for our lush greenery or “Food Paradise”, for obvious reasons!