The International Papillomavirus Society is formally incorporated in the State of Delaware, U.S.A.. as a not-for-profit organization of biomedical scientists who are investigating human and animal papillomaviruses and their associated diseases. It serves as the organizational structure for the field of scientists and physicians who have met since 1975, and annually since 1982, at twenty-one different venues in the U.S. and 12 other countries. The purposes of the IPVS are primarily educational.