Lynn Wecker, Mary Vore and Stephen Lanier elected to ASPET's top offices. Divisions for Behavioral Pharmacology, Drug Metabolism, Integrative Systems, Translational, and Clinical Pharmacology, Molecular Pharmacology, Neuropharmacology and Toxicology also elect officers. Read More

DeBose Boyd, FitzGerald, Halpert, Kobilka, Lindsley, McMillan, Saltiel, Tew and Torres are ASPET Award Winners for 2010. Read More

Four of ASPET's Divisions have now merged their websites into the main ASPET site. The new sites begin to take advantage of some of the features of our content management system. Read More

On March 5, 2009, the Great Ape Protection Act (GAPA) was introduced by Edolphus Towns (D NY). Animal rights groups such as the Humane Society of the United States, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and the New England Anti Vivisection Read More

  The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) has launched a new series, Horizons in Bioscience, to provide educational, one page articles that highlight cutting edge scientific research on the brink of clinical application and describe the pathway.  FASEB also has published as part of their Breakkthroughs in Bioscience series the newest article "“Magic Bullets and Monoclonals: An Antibody Tale.”  Read More

Development and Application of PET and SPECT Imaging Ligands as Biomarkers for Drug Discovery and for Pathophysiological Studies of CNS Disorders (R21) (PA 10 023)National Institute of Mental HealthNational Institute on AgingNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismNational Institute of Read More

NIGMS is funding four summer short courses in 2010 at select institutions to provide specialized training for using intact organ system and in vivo animal models in the conduct of research.   Read More

The NIH and FDA announced a partnership intended to promote regulatory science to develop tools, standards, and processes for assessing the safety and efficacy of new medical treatments and devices.   The goals of the partnership are to   1.      Read More

 The 2010 World Congress in Pharmacology to be held in Copenhagen in July is organized around a series of focused conferences each integrating recent basic and clinical research on a discrete topic in 2 or 3 day program within the main Congress schedule. The topics for all the conferences look very interesting, but one that caught my eye is on ion channelopathies (FC12: Ion channelopathies: new windows on complex disease and therapy). Read More

The date for submission of abstracts for the International Union of Pharmacology (IUPHAR) 2010 World Congress in Pharmacology is fast approaching (the last date for abstract submission is 15 January 2010); now is the time to start planning to attend what promises to be a very interesting meeting. A message from Sam Enna, former ASPET President and current IUPHAR Secretary-General, outlines plans for the meeting, which will be held in Copenhagen in July. Read More

 Most biomedical scientists welcomed the availability of ARRA stimulus funding for medical research although the mechanisms proposed for its distribution and the need for rapid spending by those lucky enough to receive the funds were viewed by some with a fair degree of skepticism. The doubling of NIH funding during the period 1998-2003 had already indicated that a rapid injection of funds into medical research without provision for a longer-term continuation of the increased levels of support can distort the growth and development of the most cost-effective research programs.  Economists are now arguing that the use of ARRA stimulus funds to support medical research has not had the desired effects of providing a rapid stimulus to economic activity, and thus should be considered a wasteful use of funding that was designed to restore economic growth.  Read More

Experimental Biology 2010 in Anaheim - It's already time to start making plans for the ASPET's Annual Meeting - the deadline for Abstract Submission is 4 November!   The 2010 meeting will be in Anaheim, California.  I invited Christie Carrico to give us a preview of plans for the meeting and the venue.  It is going to be a great meeting;  I look forward to seeing all of you there.   Brian Cox Read More

Licensing examinations and scientific preparation of future physicians: Views of an ASPET participant Read More