EACPT - 2018 Updates from Stockholm

EACPT Executive Committee meeting in Stockholm

The EACPT Executive Committee is meeting in early April 2018 in Stockholm to plan for future activities.

Key matters for discussion include

1. Future EACPT Congresses - the next is due to be held 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.
2. The next EACPT Focus meeting: Innovations in CPT Education - to be held at the University of Birmingham 7-8 September 2018.
3. New EACPT Awards for Best Scientific Paper in the previous 12 months. These awards will be launched on 1st June 2018 and awarded initially every 2 months (6 times a year) from August 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 a EACPT Scientific Paper Award will be eligible to be considered for the biennial EACPT Scientific Award.
4. EACPT working groups on Education, Research, Young Professionals, and Regulation and Ethics.
5. New EACPT web series on Meet the Clinical Pharmacologists
6. Opportunities from links with international organisations such as the European Medicines Agency, IUPHAR, EPHAR and UEM
7. Opportunities for Individual Associate Members including:
* discounted registration fees for EACPT meetings
* online access to the official EACPT Journal - Clinical Therapeutics
* 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.

Report on the 2017 EACPT Congress in Prague

The EACPT 2017 Congress was held 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. 487 abstracts were presented as 171 oral communications and 316 e-poster presentations were given by delegates from the European Region and around the world.

Delegates by global region

The Congress included 2 plenary sessions, 22 parallel sessions with Keynote Lectures, 5 Oral Communications sessions and 3 Guided Poster Sessions on current issues for research, education and clinical practice on safe and effective use of medicines.  The programme provided an international scientific and educational forum for discussion of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, including personalised pharmacotherapy.

Countries with 5 or more delegates

Themes included 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.

Future EACPT Congresses:
- 2019 Stockholm
- 2021 Athens
- 2023 Rotterdam

Number of delegates by region

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.