Delegates at 14th EACPT Congress in early morning Stockholm run

The 14th EACPT Congress is being held from 29th June to 2nd July in 2019 in Stockholm as a partnership between the EACPT and the Swedish Society for Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 

Beating the summer heat by a 7am start, delegates from a wide range of countries took part in a run along the quiet streets of the Swedish capital city. 

You can see below some of the delegates who took part, in photos provided by runner Professor Gerard Rongen, lead organiser of the 6th EACPT Congress, to be held in 2023 in Rotterdam.

Opportunities for EACPT Individual Associate Members include
* discounted registration fees for EACPT meetings
* networking with colleagues worldwide through the global EACPT network of Individual Associate Members
* active involvement in EACPT Working Parties and other activities  
 
Find out how to become an Associate Member of the EACPT 

Future EACPT Congresses will be held in:
- 2021 Athens
- 2023 Rotterdam

Tomorrow's medicines: key programme talks announced for EACPT Stockholm Congess 29 June - 2 July 2019

The next EACPT Congress will be held from 29th June to 2nd July in 2019 in Stockholm as a partnership between the EACPT and the Swedish Society for Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

Early bird registration deadline - 10th April 2019.  Register online for the 2019 EACPT Congress in Stockholm

The Congress will address Tomorrow's Healthcare Challenges and will be held at the City Conference Centre - 5 minutes from Stockholm Central Station.

The Congress Reception on the evening of Saturday 29th June, will be held at Stockholm City Hall, the venue of the Nobel Prize banquet.

The Keynote Opening Lecture will be given by the President at the Karolinska Institute, Professor Ole Petter Ottersen, on global health and clinical pharmacology.

Professor Urs Meyer from Switzerland will give the 2019 EACPT Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture based on his work on individual variation in drug response.

Further awards will be presented, including Scientific Awards, including Young Investigator, and EACPT Education Awards.

Around 60 invited speakers are expected from throughout Europe and beyond. Congress keynote lectures will include:

Plenary lectures

Ylva Böttiger:  Clinical pharmacology reaching out - 25 years with EACPT

Ole Petter Ottersen:  Global health research and education in Europe - how can clinical pharmacology contribute?

Harry Sokol:  Gut microbiota - a new actor in pharmacology?

Urs Meyer:  Therapeutic Lessons from Human Individuality

Rosa Giuliani:  Update on treating breast cancer

Jenny Kindblom:  Pediatric clinical trials and their pitfalls 

Tim Nicholson:  New targets in psychopharmacology

Sylvie Laporte:  Meta-epidemiological studies to detect, quantify and adjust for bias in open-label trials

Stefan James:  Innovative ways of performing clinical trials

Björn Wettermark:  How to measure drug utilisation

Cardiovascular prevention

Stephane Laurent:  Update on treating hypertension

Gerard Rongen:  PCSK9 inhibitors - going lower but for whom and at what price? Paul Hjemdahl:  Dual or triple antithrombotic therapy - is two company and three a crowd?

An ageing population

Denis O'Mahoney:  STOPP/START decision support for elderly prescribing

Anne Spinewine:  Prescribing in the frail elderly

 

Workshops

Martin Henriksson:  How to perform a health economic study 

Olof Beck and Markus Meyer: How to measure drug exposure

Jan Marcusson:  How to make on oral presentation and feel good about it

Closing the money gap

Gerd Lärfars:  Horizon scanning frontiers

Andras Inotai:  How to solve money gap to ensure patient access to pharmaceuticals in EU counties

David Webb:  Health economics: big ideas from a small country

Personalized medicine : joint EACPT-EPHAR session

Henk Jan Guchelaar:  Clinical implementation of pharmacogenetics

Viktor Hlavac:  Pharmacogenetics of cancer chemoresistance

Seppo Ylä-Herttuala:  Cardiovascular gene therapy

Martina Schusler-Lenz:  Advanced therapy regulation in the EU

Interprofessional working

Ann Lykkegaard Sørensen:  Interprofessional approach for safer medication in psychiatry

Hanna Seidling:  Benchmarks for successful interdisciplinary collaboration

Debate: Deprescribing is Dangerous

Jamie Coleman:  For; Wade Thompson : Against

Targeting small populations

Caridad Pontes:  barriers to market access, 

Violeta Stoyanova:  drug designation and other regulatory challenges

Critically ill patients

Dario Cattaneo:  Anti-infectives in intensive care

Philippe Vignon:  New sepsis drugs in the pipeline: any reason for hope?

Christoph Stein:  New concepts in opioid analgesia

Antibiotic drug resistance

Johan Mouton:  Antimicrobial resistance. Could PK/PD be the answer?

Alexandra Aubry:  New treatment options for resistent tuberculosis

Polypharmacy: joint session with the Korean Society

Howard Lee:  Polypharmacy in Korea

Ho Sook Kim:  The clinical pharmacology perspectives for the optimal polypharmacy in Korea

Kees Kramers:  Polypharmacy: Acting on the cutting edge of safety, efficacy and compliance

Patient empowerment

Bettina Ryll:  Patient empowerment: Issues with introduction of a new class of drugs

Ann Langius Eklöf:  Smart phones provide smart patients

2020 drug strategy

Jordi Llinares:  achievements and future initiatives; Drug regulation in the 2020s:  Gonzalo Calvo: an academic perspective; Graziella Collu: a pharmaceutical industry perspective

Decision support

Matthew Doogue:  Alert, clinical decision support helping patients and hindering work flow

Lars L Gustafsson:  Clinical pharmacologists with computers - the way forward

Updates on the EACPT from Athens

Parthenon, Athens

The EACPT Executive Committee is meeting in Athens from 5^th – 6^th April 2019 to plan for future activities of the EACPT.

Main topics for discussion include

-       final details for the upcoming 2019 EACPT Congress to be held in Stockholm from 29th June - 2nd July in 2019

-       early planning for the next EACPT Congress, to be held in Athens in 2021, from 26^th – 29^th June

-       updates from EACPT Research, Regulatory and Education working groups

-       EACPT awards

The next EACPT Congress will be held from 29th June to 2nd July in 2019 in Stockholm as a partnership between the EACPT and the Swedish Society for Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 

Early bird registration deadline - 10th April 2019.  Register online for the 2019 EACPT Congress in Stockholm

The Congress will address Tomorrow's Healthcare Challenges and will be held at the City Conference Centre - 5 minutes from Stockholm Central Station.

EACPT committee in Athens by Hippocrates statue. 

Back row: Per Ankaer, MCI (Denmark), Pierre Marquet (France), Vangelis Manolopoulos (Greece), Markus Zeitlinger (Austria), Janne Backman (Finland), Caroline Samer (Switzerland)  Donald Singer (UK),  Michial van Agtmael (Netherlands), Achim Schmidtko (Germany). Front row:  Jamie Coleman (UK), Tabassome Simon (France), Ylva Böttiger (Sweden), Arantxa Sancho Lopez (Spain), Gerard Rongen (Netherlands).

The Congress Reception on the evening of Saturday 29th June, will be held at Stockholm City Hall, the venue of the Nobel Prize banquet.

The Keynote Opening Lecture will be given by the President at the Karolinska Institute, Professor Ole Petter Ottersen, on global health and clinical pharmacology.

Professor Urs Meyer from Switzerland will give the 2019 EACPT Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture based on his work on individual variation in drug response.

Further awards will be presented, including Scientific Awards, including Young Investigator, and EACPT Education Awards.

Around 60 invited speakers are expected from throughout Europe and beyond. Congress keynote lectures, sessions and themes will include:

• Advanced therapies
• Ageing populations
• Anti-coagulation
• Anti-microbial resistance
• Beating cancer
• Chronic disease
• Clinical drug research of tomorrow
• Clinical pharmacologists versus computers
• Clinical use of pharmacokinetics
• Closing the money gap  
• Computers vs. clinical pharmacologists
• Deprescribing
• Drug-drug interaction
• Drug regulation in the 2020s
• Drug utilisation
• EACPT meets Asian Societies      
• Ethics in clinical research
• Global Health
• How to become a clinical pharmacologist
• How to make an oral presentation
• How to measure drug exposure
• How to measure drug use
• How to perform a health economic study
• Inter-professional exchange for better drug treatment
• Mental health
• Misuse of medicines
• Patient empowerment
• Polypharmacy: joint symposium with the Korean Society (KSCPT)
•  medicine: EPHAR-EACPT joint symposium
• Preparing tomorrow's prescribers
• Prescribing and deprescribing
• Publish or perish
• Rare diseases
• Targeting small populations  
• The critically ill patient
• Treating ageing populations 
• Treating disease in children

Major awards to be presented at the Stockholm Congress include the EACPT Lifetime Achievement Award, the biennial EACPT Scientific Award for best publication on a clinical pharmacology or therapeutic theme, Young Investigator awards jointly with EPHAR, and the EACPT Education Award.

Opportunities for EACPT Associate Members include
* discounted registration fees for EACPT meetings
* networking with colleagues worldwide through the global EACPT network of Associate Members
* active involvement in EACPT Working Parties and other activities 

Find out how to become an Associate Member of the EACPT 

Future EACPT Congresses will be held in:
- 2021 Athens
- 2023 Rotterdam

The EACPT was founded in 1993 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.

Updates on the EACPT from the UK

The EACPT Executive Committee is meeting in early September 2018 in Birmingham in the UK West Midlands to plan for future activities. This coincides with the latest EACPT Focus meeting: Innovations in CPT Education - which is being held at the University of Birmingham from 7-8 September 2018. Delegates for the Focus meeting are expected from a wide range of countries, including Finland, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Lithuania, Poland, Italy, Spain, Romania, Malta and the UK.

EACPT EC in Birmingham

Key matters for discussion by the EACPT EC included:

1. Future EACPT Congresses - the next is due to be held from 29th June to 2nd July in 2019 in Stockholm as a partnership between the EACPT and the Swedish Society for Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. The Congress will address Tomorrow's Healthcare Challenges and will be held at the City Conference Centre - 5 minutes from Stockholm Central Station.
The Keynote Opening Lecture will be given by the President at the Karolinska Institute, Professor Ole Petter Ottersen, on global health and clinical pharmacology.

Congress sessions and themes will include:

• Advanced therapies
• Chronic disease
• Clinical pharmacologists versus computers
• Closing the money gap  
• Drug regulation in the 2020's
• EACPT meets Asian Societies      
• EPHAR-EACPT joint symposium on personalised medicine
• Ethics in clinical research
• Global Health
• How to become a clinical pharmacologist
• How to measure drug exposure
• How to measure drug use
• How to perform a health economic study
• Interprofessional exchange for better drug treatment
• Misuse of medicines
• Patient empowerment
• Preparing tomorrow's prescribers
• Prescribing and deprescribing
• Targeting small populations  
• The critically ill patient
• Treating ageing populations 
• Treating cancer
• Treating children

2. New EACPT Awards for Best Scientific Paper in the previous 12 months on a clinical pharmacology or therapeutics theme. Authors may be from any discipline and do not have to be members of the EACPT. These awards will be launched in September 2018 and awarded initially every 2 months (6 times a year) from November 2018. 

Award winners will receive a free one year Individual Associate Membership (IAM) of the EACPT. Winners who are already EACPT IAMs will receive a 100€ prize. Papers which receive an EACPT Scientific Paper Award will be eligible to be considered for the biennial EACPT Scientific Award.

3. EACPT working groups on Education, Research, Young Professionals, and Regulation and Ethics.

4. New EACPT web series on Meet the Clinical Pharmacologists

5. Opportunities from links with international organisations such as the European Medicines Agency, IUPHAR, EPHAR and UEM|

6. Opportunities for Individual Associate Members including:
* discounted registration fees for EACPT meetings
* networking with colleagues worldwide through the global EACPT network of Associate Members
* active involvement in EACPT Working Parties and other activities  

Find out how to become an Associate Member of the EACPT  

The EACPT Executive Committee meets 6 monthly, with regular additional discussions by teleconference on key EACPT strategy and activities.

Future EACPT Congresses will be held in:
- 2019 Stockholm
- 2021 Athens
- 2023 Rotterdam

The EACPT was founded in 1993 - 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.

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.

More about the EACPT.

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