EACPT announces Clinical Therapeutics as its new Official Journal

The European Association of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics is delighted to be announce Clinical Therapeutics as its Official Journal, in partnership with the major international publisher Elsevier. 

This interaction is timely both in view of the increasing need to meet international therapeutic challenges and new developments at the journal, including broadening its remit to include the pharmacology underpinning successful therapeutics.
 
The journal will from April 2013 feature highlights of EACPT scientfic and other activities and provide information on future EACPT congresses, summer schools and other events. The journal will also publish peer-reviewed original papers and reviews arising from EACPT conferences.

Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Therapeutics Dr. Richard Shader welcomed the agreement reached with European Association of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT) to adopt Clinical Therapeutics as its Official Journal. 

He said “This interaction is timely both in view of the increasing need to meet international therapeutic challenges and the renewed editorial calendar to broaden the journal's scope to include the pharmacology underpinning successful therapeutics”.
See more about the new affiliation between EACPT and Clinical Therapeutics

Register for the 11th EACPT Congress in Geneva 28-31 August 2013

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Update from Paris on the EACPT

Late cherry blossom in Paris

The EACPT Executive Committee met in Paris 18th-20th April, hosted by EACPT Vice-Chair Professor Tabassome Simon. The main business of this EC meeting included planning for the 11th biennial EACPT congress to be held from 28^th – 31^st August 2013 in Geneva.  

EACPT biennial congresses provide excellent opportunities to showcase issues of topical international concern to the CPT 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 Geneva Congress will bring together a wide range of international delegates, including health

EACPT Executive Committee at the Hôpital St Antoine in Paris

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 will be 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. Close to 400 abstracts have been submitted from 57 countries from all 5 continents for consideration for oral and poster communications.

Marie Besson (see Figure) and Caroline Samer are leading the local organizing committee for the EACPT in Geneva. Key themes at the Geneva congress will range from bedside pharmacology for special patient groups,

Marie Besson with EACPT Chairman Gonzalo Calvo

to pharmacology & toxicology, and pharmacology and society. Further sessions will include new biological agents, translational medicine and pharmacogenetics, advances in personalised diagnostics to improve the safety and effectiveness of medicines, updates on new biological approaches to ocular disease, therapeutics of cardiovascular, cancer and inflammatory disease, clinical trial design and regulation, drug safety and toxicology, clinical trial design and governance, health policy, communicating with the public, and safe prescribing. There will also be sessions on the safety of drugs, and on the European and international regulatory environment. 

To register for the Geneva EACPT Congress, go to the Congress website.

Update on 28-31 August 2013 EACPT Congress in Geneva

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The abstract deadline for the next biennial EACPT Congress is only 6 weeks away: 8th April 2013.
See the EACPT Congress blog for summaries on many of the symposia to be held during the Congress: from new therapeutic biomarkers, to new biomarker and treatment targets (cancer, eye disease, predictive pharmacogenetics, inborn errors of metabolism, therapeutic drug monitoring ...), and how to improve safety in prescribing ...

The Congress will be held at the International Congress Centre of Geneva from 28 to 31 August 2013. 

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Over 900 participants are expected to attend including health professionals, scientists, policy makers, biotechnology and pharmaceutical professionals and others with an interest in basic and clinical pharmacology, pharmacotherapy, drug discovery and development, regulatory affairs and related areas.

Abstract submission

Registration

2013 EACPT Geneva Congress website.

Strategy development for the EACPT

EC members from UK, Sweden, Croatia and Italy

The European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics provides expert advice for European policy makers and medicines agencies, and organises congresses and workshops providing key information on the latest advances in research, education and policy on drug development and on the efficacy and safety of new and established medicines and their management. The EACPT  provides important additional support for its members, including representation and advocacy, training, and other aspects of development of the specialty.

EC members from France, Holland, Denmark, Finland and Germany

The international landscape for learned medical societies is evolving rapidly as a result of several key factors, including the impact of advances in molecular technology on drug discovery and development, changes in populations demographics, emergence of new therapeutic challenges,  the current global economic climate, and the effects of new e-technologies on ways of working and interacting for health and industry professionals, researchers and other interested in clinical sciences.

EC members from Holland, Spain, Germany & Hungary

The EACPT Executive Committee is in the process of conducting one of its regular strategy reviews, including evaluation of opportunities for the Assocation and its communities arising from the above developments. Results and actions arising from the strategy review will be discussed at the next biennial EACPT Congress to be held in Geneva 28-31 August 2013.

More on the EACPT Geneva 2013 Congress.

Update from Sicily on the EACPT

The European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics organises congresses and workshops providing key information on the latest advances in research, education and policy on drug development and on the efficacy and safety of new and established medicines and their management. The EACPT  provides important additional support for its members, including representation and advocacy, training, and other aspects of development of the specialty.

Mount Etna

The latest meeting of the EACPT Executive is taking place in Sicily in advance of the next major EACPT biennial congress, to be held in the beautiful Swiss city of Geneva in the summer of 2013.

Here are two important updates about the EACPT's scientific and educational programmes and affiliated conferences:

The next EACPT summer school will be held 4-6 July 2013 in Edinburgh, with an excellent range of topics for delegates interested in key principles relevant to clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. For information and to register interest, email meetings@bps.ac.uk.

The EACPT is developing the programme for its next biennial congress, to be held in beautiful Geneva, 28th - 31st August in 2013. Key themes at the congress will range from bedside pharmacology for special patient groups to pharmacology & toxicology, and pharmacology and society. Specific topics will include advances in personalised diagnostics to improve the safety and effectiveness of medicines, updates on new biological approaches to ocular disease, therapeutics of cardiovascular, cancer and inflammatory disease, clinical trial design and regulation, and drug safety and toxicology.

Registration and abstract submission for the 2012 EACPT Congress will open 10th November, 2012.
For more on the congress see the Geneva 2013 EACPT website.

The EACPT EC has also endorsed the Spring Conference of its constituent Croatian Society:
'The Third Croatian and Third Adriatic Congress on Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research:
The role of Pharmacoeconomics in Developing Countries'
Venue: Brijuni, Croatia
Dates: April 25-27, 2013
Croatia Congress website

European Association of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Summer School 2013, Edinburgh

The 2013 EACPT Summer School will be held in Edinburgh, organised by Professor David Webb and Professor Simon Maxwell.

Date: 4 - 6 July 2013

Location: Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh

Event flyer

The Summer School programme will consist of keynote presentations on all aspects of clinical pharmacology by invited expert speakers, workshops, poster presentations, free communications and social events. There will be a strong interactive element and the opportunity for delegates to network with the speakers. 

Bursaries will be available. 

For more information and to register your interest, please email meetings@bps.ac.uk

See also information on 11th EACPT Congress, Geneva 28 - 31 August, 2013

2012 EACPT Summer School on Therapeutic Education

From 23-25 August 2012 the EACPT Summer School on Therapeutic Education was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 

46 participants from 16 European countries (incl. Russia) and 1 from Trinidad attended the Summer School. Both the design and content of the programme and the social programme and organization were very well appreciated. 

Most participants would welcome a Network of Therapeutic Teachers, more (frequent) summer schools and/or training sessions, and joint (research) projects on therapeutic education.

See www.eacpt-amsterdam.nl for the programme, abstracts and more photos. 

EACPT website

EACPT 2013 Congress themes and update

EACPT 2013 Congress website: Geneva August 28th - 31st