EACPT 2017 Congress underway in Prague

The EACPT 2017 Congress is underway in Prague from 24th-27th June with 566 participants from all 5 continents - 28% from beyond the European Region, from Australia to China, Japan and South Korea to the USA.

Professor Pertti J. Neuvonen

The Congress includes 22 sessions with Keynote Lectures on current issues for research, education and clinical practice on safe and effective use of medicines. 

Almost 500 oral and poster presentations will be presented by delegates from the European Region and around the world  

During the opening session on Saturday 24th June, the 2017 EACPT Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Professor Pertti J. Neuvonen, Finland. 

Paoletti Medal Awards

The Rodolfo Paoletti Medal for Distinction in European Pharmacology at the 2017 EACPT Congress in Prague was presented on 25th June to current EACPT President Professor Tabassome Simon from Paris and EACPT Past-President Professor Gonzalo Calvo from Barcelona. The awards were announced by EPHAR Past-President Professor Thomas Griesbacher and EPHAR President-Elect Mojka Kržan.

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Further scientific Awards will be presented later during the Congress.

During the Congress, delegates will have the opportunity to network with global experts and trainees in the fields of research, clinical practice, the biotechnology sector, regulation and health policy. There will also be updates on the activities of the EACPT Working Groups for Research, Education, Regulation and Young Pharmacologists.

More on the Prague Congress

Future EACPT Congresses:
- 2019 Stockholm
- 2021 Athens
- 2023 Rotterdam
 
The EACPT was founded 25 years ago and now includes as members all national organisations for clinical pharmacology in Europe, as well as organisations from further afield internationally. The EACPT aims to provide educational and scientific support for the more than 4000 individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics throughout the European region, with its congresses attended by a global audience. The EACPT also advises policy makers on how the specialty can contribute to human health and wealth.
Clinical Therapeutics, the Official Journal of EACPT.

Register for updates on safety and effectiveness of medicines at EACPT Prague Congress - 24-27 June 2017

Rotterdam 7th April, 20017

The EACPT Executive Committee are meeting in Rotterdam to agree final details of the next EACPT Congress to be held in Prague from 24-27 June 2017.

Register for the Prague Congress

Early registration deadline 17 April

Standard registration deadline 16 June

Highlights of the Congress will include

-  22 sessions with Keynote Lectures on current issues for research, education and clinical practice on safe and effective use of medicines  

- almost 500 oral and poster presentations from the European Region and around the world  

- presentation of EACPT Lifetime Achievement (Professor Pertti J.Neuvonen, Finland) and Scientific Awards 

- opportunity to network with global experts and trainees in the fields of research, clinical practice, the biotechnology sector, regulation and health policy  

- update on the activities of the EACPT Working Groups for Research, Education, Regulation and Young Pharmacologists.

 

Charles Bridge - Prague

More on the Prague Congress

The programme will provide an international scientific and educational forum for discussion of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, including personalised pharmacotherapy.

Themes will include the latest developments on effectiveness and safety of medicines, clinical pharmacology in clinical practice, pharmacokinetics/systems pharmacology, including in special populations, innovative techniques, eHealth, biomarkers, education, advanced practices in topics such as drug discovery, drug development, biological therapies, global health with a focus on access to safe medicines, new pharmacology and pharmacotherapy, safety in prescribing and updates on personalised medicines, as well as updates on specific therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, nephrology, oncology, neurology and psychiatry.

Click here to apply online for EACPT membership. 

Anyone from anywhere in the world with a professional interest in clinical pharmacology and/or therapeutics can now join the EACPT as an Individual Associate member. 

There are reduced joining fees for Individual Associate members who are already members of a national or international organisation relevant to clinical pharmacology and therapeutics.

Membership benefits include:

* Access to videos of talks from EACPT Meetings

* Discounted registration fees for EACPT meetings

* Online access to the Official EACPT Journal - Clinical Therapeutics

* Access to the EACPT’s worldwide network of Individual Associate Members

* Active involvement in EACPT

The 2019 EACPT Congress will be held in Stockholm and the 2021 EACPT Congress in Athens.

The EACPT was founded 25 years ago and now includes as members all national organisations for clinical pharmacology in Europe, as well as organisations from further afield internationally. The EACPT aims to provide educational and scientific support for the more than 4000 individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics throughout the European region, with its congresses attended by a global audience. The EACPT also advises policy makers on how the specialty can contribute to human health and wealth.

Clinical Therapeutics, the Official Journal of EACPT.

Update from Prague on the EACPT

The EACPT Executive Committee have met in Prague from 13th - 14th May to plan for

Charles Bridge - Prague

its future activities.

These include:

1. A joint EACPT session with EPHAR in Istanbul, June 26-30th 2016.
2. Our next Focus Meeting to be held in Opatija in Croatia from 6th - 9th October 2016
3. The exciting programme shaping up for the EACPT Prague Congress (24-27 June 2017)
4. Plans for major EACPT Awards due in 2017 (Lifetime Achievement - deadline 31st October, 2016; Scientific Award - deadline 31st January, 2017)
5. Support by the EACPT of the new UEMS Clinical Pharmacology Section
6. Activities of the EACPT Working Groups for Research, Education, Regulation and Young Pharmacologists.

October 6-9th 2016 EACPT Focus Meeting on how to assess medicines ...

The theme of the October 6-9th 2016 EACPT Focus Meeting is “How to Assess Medicines from Research to Clinical Practice? Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Economic – 3E Assessment”. 

The main objectives of this Focus Meeting are to increase awareness, knowledge and use of critical assessment pillars for medicinal products in everyday clinical practice in order to improve healthcare outcomes in affordable manner. 

Abstract deadline: June 15th 2016
Early registration deadline: June 30th 2016

EACPT Prague Congress - 24-27 June 2017

The programme will provide an international scientific and educational forum for discussion of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, including personalised pharmacotherapy.

Themes will include the latest developments on effectiveness and safety of medicines, clinical pharmacology in clinical practice, pharmacokinetics/systems pharmacology, including in special populations, innovative techniques, eHealth, biomarkers, education, advanced practices in topics such as drug discovery, drug development, biological therapies, global health with a focus on access to safe medicines, new pharmacology and pharmacotherapy, safety in prescribing and updates on personalised medicines, as well as updates on specific therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, nephrology, oncology, neurology and psychiatry.

Members of the EACPT Executive Committee in Prague: Back Row: Matthias Schwab (Germany), Donald Singer (UK), Edoardo Spina (Italy), Tabassome Simon (France), Caroline Samer (Switzerland), Marie Besson (Switzerland), Milan Grundmann (Czech Republic); Front ROw: Simon Maxwell (UK), Dinko Vitezic (Croatia), Janne Backman (Finland), Ylva Böttiger (Sweden), Gerard Rongen (Netherlands).

The 2019 EACPT Congress will be held in Stockholm and the 2021 EACPT Congress in Athens. 

Click here to apply online for EACPT membership. 

Anyone from anywhere in the world with a professional interest in clinical pharmacology and/or therapeutics can now join the EACPT as an Individual Associate member. 

There are reduced joining fees for Individual Associate members who are already members of a national or international organisation relevant to clinical pharmacology and therapeutics.

 

Membership benefits include:

• Access to videos of talks from EACPT Meetings
• Discounted registration fees for EACPT meetings
• Online access to the Official EACPT Journal - Clinical Therapeutics
• Access to the EACPT’s worldwide network of Individual Associate Members
• Active involvement in EACPT

The EACPT was founded 24 years ago and now includes as members all national organisations for clinical pharmacology in Europe, as well as organisations from further afield internationally. The EACPT aims to provide educational and scientific support for the more than 4000 individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics throughout the European region, with its congresses attended by a global audience. The EACPT also advises policy makers on how the specialty can contribute to human health and wealth.

Clinical Therapeutics, the Official Journal of EACPT.

New Year plans for the EACPT

We wish all our national society and individual members all the best for the festive season and for 2016.

The New Year will see further major activities for the EACPT. These include:

The next EACPT Focus Meeting will be held from 6th to 9th October, 2016 in partnership with the Croatian Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. The theme of the meeting is “How to Assess Medicines from Research to Clinical Practice".

The main objectives of this Focus Meeting are to increase awareness, knowledge and use of critical assessment pillars for medicinal products in everyday clinical practice in order to improve healthcare outcomes in affordable manner.

Planning is already well underway for the next biennial EACPT Congress, to be held in Prague from 23^rd – 27^th June in 2017. As part of Congress preparations, the next meeting of the EACPT Executive Committee will be in May in Prague.

Following the launch of a new individual associate membership for the EACPT, further working groups have been launched, complementing the established EACPT Education Working Group.These working groups provide excellent opportunities to become actively involved in the running of the EACPT.

EACPT Working Groups:

• Young Clinical Pharmacologists
• Education
• Ethics
• Regulatory 
• Research  

Click here to apply online for EACPT individual membership. 
 
Anyone from anywhere in the world with a professional interest in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics can now join the EACPT as an Individual Associate member. Membership benefits include:

• Active involvement in the EACPT  
• Access to videos of talks from EACPT Meetings 
• Discounted registration fees for EACPT meetings 
• Online access to the Official EACPT Journal - Clinical Therapeutics
•  Access to the EACPT’s worldwide network of Individual Associate Members

The EACPT was founded 23 years ago and now includes as members all national organisations for clinical pharmacology in Europe, as well as organisations from further afield internationally. The EACPT aims to provide educational and scientific support for the more than 4000 individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics throughout the European region, with its congresses attended by a global audience. The EACPT also advises policy makers on how the specialty can contribute to human health and wealth.

News on next EACPT Congress in Prague: 23rd - 27th June, 2017

The next EACPT Congress will be held in Prague from 23^rd – 27^th June, 2017.

The Prague EACPT Congress in 2017 will provide an international scientific and educational

Prague: Charles bridge and Vltava river

forum for discussion of clinical pharmacology and personalised pharmacotherapy. Themes will include the latest developments on effectiveness and safety of medicines, clinical pharmacology in clinical practice, innovative techniques, and advanced practices in topics such as drug discovery, drug development, new pharmacology and pharmacotherapy, safety in prescribing and updates on personalised medicines. 

The Congress will bring together a wide range of international delegates, including health professionals, clinical and life scientists, policy makers, professionals from the biotechnology and pharmaceutical communities and others interested in the spectrum from basic to clinical pharmacology and pharmacotherapy, and from drug discovery to regulatory affairs. The Congress will include a dedicated session for Young Pharmacologists. 

The following major EACPT Awards will be presented at the Congress.

The EACPT Lifetime Achievement Award is for outstanding contributions to the national and international benefits of clinical pharmacology for medicine, health care and patient safety.

 The EACPT Scientific Award is for the best scientific paper on a topic relevant to clinical pharmacology and therapeutics published by a European clinical pharmacologist over the period between EACPT congresses, based on nominations by the EACPT Council. Criteria are scientific quality, broader impact in science, and the importance of the work in the context of healthcare delivery.

Anyone from anywhere in the world with a professional interest in clinical pharmacology and/or therapeutics can now join the EACPT as an Individual Associate member.

Click here to apply online for EACPT membership.

Membership benefits include:

• Discounted registration fees for EACPT meetings

• Access to videos of talks from EACPT Meetings

• Online access to the Official EACPT Journal - Clinical Therapeutics

• Access to the EACPT’s worldwide network of Individual Associate Members

• Active involvement in EACPT 

The EACPT was founded over 20 years ago and now includes all national organisations for clinical pharmacology in Europe. The EACPT aims to provide educational and scientific support for the more than 4000 individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics throughout the European region, with its congresses attended by a global audience. The EACPT also advises policy makers on how the specialty can contribute to human health and wealth.

Update from Barcelona on the EACPT

The EACPT Executive Committee met in Barcelona from 27th - 28^th November

Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

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plan for future activities including its next Focus Meeting to be held in Opatija in Croatia from 6th - 9th October 2016 and the 13th biennial Congress of the EACPT, to be held in Prague, Czech Republic in June 2017. 

The theme of the October 2016 EACPT Focus Meeting is “How to Assess Medicines from Research to Clinical Practice? Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Economic – 3E Assessment”. The main objectives of this Focus Meeting are to increase awareness, knowledge and use of critical assessment pillars for medicinal products in everyday clinical practice in order to improve healthcare outcomes in affordable manner. 

The Prague EACPT Congress in 2017 will provide an international scientific and educational

Members of the EACPT Executive Committee: Sagrada Familia

forum for discussion of clinical pharmacology and personalised pharmacotherapy. Themes will include the latest developments on effectiveness and safety of medicines, clinical pharmacology in clinical practice, innovative techniques, and advanced practices in topics such as drug discovery, drug development, new pharmacology and pharmacotherapy, safety in prescribing and updates on personalised medicines. 

There were updates on the progress of current and new working groups for Young Pharmacologists, Ethics, Regulatory issues and Education.

There were also reports on interaction with other professional organisations and societies, including the European Medicines Agency, IUPHAR (the International Union of Pharmacology) and EPHAR (the European Federation of Pharmacology Societies) and an update on interactions with Clinical Therapeutics, the Official Journal of EACPT.

The 2019 EACPT Congress will be held in Stockholm and the 2021 EACPT Congress in Athens. 

Click here to apply online for EACPT membership. 

Anyone from anywhere in the world with a professional interest in clinical pharmacology and/or therapeutics can now join the EACPT as an Individual Associate member.

Membership benefits include:

• Access to videos of talks from EACPT Meetings
• Discounted registration fees for EACPT meetings
• Online access to the Official EACPT Journal - Clinical Therapeutics
• Access to the EACPT’s worldwide network of Individual Associate Members
• Active involvement in EACPT 

The last EACPT Congress was held in June 2015 in Madrid where over 500 abstracts were presented as e-posters and 54 oral presentations. 

The EACPT was founded 23 years ago and now includes as members all national organisations for clinical pharmacology in Europe, as well as organisations from further afield internationally. The EACPT aims to provide educational and scientific support for the more than 4000 individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics throughout the European region, with its congresses attended by a global audience. The EACPT also advises policy makers on how the specialty can contribute to human health and wealth.

Update from Croatia on the 2015 EACPT Madrid Congress

The Executive Committee of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and

Rijeka, Croatia

Therapeutics (EACPT) is meeting from 26-28 September in Rijeka in Croatia, hosted by the Croatian Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics    
The main business of this EC meeting includes planning for:
-  the 12th biennial EACPT congress to be held from

Rijeka port

27-29 June 2015 in Madrid
-  further interaction with the official EACPT journal Clinical Therapeutics (online access is a benefit for individual associates of the EACPT)  
-  the next EACPT focus meeting, following the successful EACPT Cardiovascular Focus Meeting held in Nijmegen in the Netherlands, 3-5 July 2014 (selected papers will be published shortly in the offical EACPT journal - Clinical Therapeutics
- interaction with key policy organisations interested in medicines and patient safety, including the European Medicines Agency. EACPT chair Professor Gonzalo Calvo is inaugural co-chair of the Healthcare Professionals Working Party of the European Medicines Agency.

EACPT biennial congresses provide excellent opportunities to showcase issues of topics of  concern to the internationalclinical pharmacology and therapeutics community, through timely and accessible original research presentations and commentaries to policy-makers, health and industry professionals, health technology providers, patient groups and academia.

The Madrid 2015 Congress will bring together a wide range of international delegates,

Royal Palace in Madrid

including health professionals, clinical and life scientists, policy makers, professionals from the biotechnology and pharmaceutical communities and others interested in the spectrum from basic to clinical pharmacology and pharmacotherapy, and from drug discovery to regulatory affairs. 
Key themes at the Madrid congress are expected to include:
- medicines and global health, 

- regulation of biosimilar medicinal products, 

- novel insight into drug ADME,  
- new models of public-private partnership in clinical research, 

- risk adapted clinical trial interventions, 

- pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacovigilance, 

- new pharmacological interventions against Alzheimer's disease,  

- research with electronic health care data,
- advice on writing papers from the Editor of Clinical Therapeutics

- heterogeneity in drug response, 

- the patient's voice in drug selection decisions,  

- translational medicine and pharmacogenetics,  

- therapeutics of wide range of common and serious diseases
- impact of immunosuppression on cancer risk,

- health policy and safe prescribing. 

Sessions will also include discussion about and opportunities for networking in relation to new EACPT-facilitated research networks.

See website for the 12th EACPT Congress to be held in Madrid from 27-29 June 2015.

Highlights of the 2013 EACPT Congress in Geneva

Around 600 young and senior pharmacologists from 5 continents were in

Congress President Pierre Dayer with local organizers Caroline Samer and Marie Besson

Geneva for the 11th biennial Congress of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT). 

Marie Besson with Heather Sheppard and Gaëlle Notzli from MCI

Key developments included
- a new journal affiliation with Clinical Therapeutics - the journal team attended

EACPT Chairman Gonzalo Calvo

the Congress and Editor-in-Chief Richard Shader gave a Masterclass on scientific publishing
- introduction of a new individual Associate membership category for EACPT - more news on how to join will follow 
- individual Associate membership will include online access to the official EACPT journal - Clinical Therapeutics.
- announcements of future EACPT Congresses for Madrid in 2015, Prague in 2017, and Stockholm in 2019. 

EACPT Awards

Sir Michael Rawlins and Carlo Patrono

- Lifetime achievement awards went to Professor Sir Michael Rawlins and to Professor Carlo Patrono.
- The EACPT Scientific Award went to Dr David Devos.
- A Special EACPT Award was presented to EACPT co-founder Professor Michael Orme and accepted on his behalf by fellow EACPT co-founder Professor Folke Sjöqvist.

EACPT Poster Prize winners

Moderated Poster Session

PP020 Domenico Italiano, Italy
Title: EFFECTS OF ARIPIPRAZOLE AND RISPERIDONE ON VENTRICULAR REPOLARIZATION IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
 
PP114 Annemarie Thijs, Netherland
Title: SUNITINIB DOES NOT REDUCE ENDOTHELIUM-DEPENDENT VASODILATION IN HUMANS

PP219 Roselyne Boulieu, France
Title: THIOPURINE METABOLITES ARE USEFUL IN PREDICTING AZATHIOPRINE RESISTANCE IN PEDIATRIC IBD PATIENTS

PP233 Caroline Samer, Switzerland
Title: CYP1A ACTIVITY AFTER CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO DIOXINS FROM A WASTE INCINERATOR

More about the 11th EACPT Congress in Geneva

View and download Congress Programme

View Congress Abstracts ONLINE at the Clinical Therapeutics website.

The Geneva Congress brings together a wide range of international delegates,

Speaker Panel

including health professionals, clinical and life scientists, policy makers, professionals from the biotechnology and pharmaceutical communities and others interested in the spectrum from basic to clinical pharmacology and pharmacotherapy, and from drug discovery to regulatory affairs. 

For the Geneva Congress, there are 101 invited speakers from 21 countries - 15 from the European region and a further 6 countries internationally, from the USA, Canada, New Zealand, China, Benin and India. Around 400 abstracts from 57 countries from all 5 continents are being presented as oral and poster communications.

 

Social programme - on Lake Geneva

The EACPT was founded 20 years ago and now includes all national

Social programme - on Lake Geneva

organisations for clinical pharmacology in Europe. 

The EACPT aims to provide educational and scientific support for the more than 4000 individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics throughout the European region, with its congresses attended by a global audience.

The EACPT also advises policy makers on how the specialty can contribute to human health and wealth.

Official EACPT journal: Clinical Therapeutics 

More about the 11th EACPT Congress in Geneva.

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Future EACPT Congresses and Summer Schools
2014 - 11th EACPT Summer School - Nijmegen: 5-8 July
2015 - 12th EACPT Congress - Madrid
2017 - 13th EACPT Congress - Prague
2019 - 14th EACPT Congress - Stockholm