What’s included in the Virtual Program?

Online Award Lecture Series

These lectures will be presented in real-time on ASPET's virtual event platform, accessible to those who have registered in advance for the annual meeting. Attendees will have the opportunity to post questions for the awardees during the session.

Special login credentials were sent on April 28th and again the morning of each Award Lecture to those who are registered for the annual meeting and paid in full. Recordings of these live presentations are available to registrants for on-demand viewing through June 30 on the virtual event platform. 

How to watch the ASPET online Award Lecture Series

Recordings of Annual Meeting Sessions

A limited number of the presentations at the annual meeting in St. Louis were recorded and are being made available through June 30 for viewing on-demand by registrants through our virtual event platform.

Please note, missing presentations exist where speakers did not grant permission to record or we had technical issues. All our keynote presentations are available.

Under the General Session section of the virtual event platform:

• Holden Thorp: Understanding Anti-Science: Why Scientists Should Learn History (look under "Opening General Session")
• William Kaelin: The VHL Tumor Suppressor Protein: Insights into Oxygen Sensing and Cancer
• Yasmin Hurd: Translating Addiction: Neurobiological Insights to Risk and Therapeutic Interventions
• Conversations with Awardees (Carrie Ferrario, Walter Koch, Lynette Daws, Ian Blair, David Sibley, Kathleen Giacomini, and Daniela Salvemini)
  
• Awards Presentations Lunch
• Breakfast and Business Meeting

Under the Online Award Lecture Series section of the virtual event platform:

• Reynold Spector Award in Clinical Pharmacology and Translational Medicine Lecture
• John J. Abel Award in Pharmacology Lecture
• Norman Weiner Lecture
• Susan Band Horwitz Award Lecture in Cancer Pharmacology
  

Under the Concurrent Sessions section of the virtual event platform:

• Julius Axelrod Lecture and Symposium: Melatonin Receptors: Molecular Pharmacology and Role in the Modulation of Circadian Disorders
• Evolution of Psychedelics: Molecules Inspired by 5-HT2 Receptor Biology
• Cell-Cell Communication in Heart Failure and Therapy
• Advances in ADME and Toxicity Biomarkers
• Pharmacology of Opioid/Stimulant Co-abuse: From the Lab to the Clinic
• ADME of Biological Therapeutics for Drug Discovery and Development
• Motivation-related Targets for Drug Development
• The Null Hypothesis: The Importance of Showcasing Non-Significant Data
• Impact of the Microbiome and Pathobiome in Drug Metabolism and Disposition
• Muscarinic Receptors in Stages of Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders
• Pharmacology-based Tools Opening New Frontiers in Biological Research
• Revolutionary Tools to Unveil Undruggable Therapeutic Targets
• Therapeutic Targeting Myeloid Cells in Cancer
• Transporter Regulations and Their Role in Drug Disposition and Interaction
• Adipose Tissue Connects Dysbiosis to Heart Disease: Sex Differences?
  
  Division programming sessions:
  
• Scientific Achievement Award in Drug Discovery and Development Lecture by Thota Ganesh
  
• Division for Translational and Clinical Pharmacology - Young Investigator Awards Platform and Early Career Faculty Showcase
• Division of Drug Metabolism and Disposition Okita Early Career and Gillette Award Lectures and Junior Investigator Platform Session
• Division for Cardiovascular Pharmacology Trainee Showcase featuring the Benedict R. Lucchesi Young Scientist Awardee
• Division for Neuropharmacology Award Lectures and Postdoctoral Fellow Showcase
• Division for Cancer Pharmacology-Young Investigator Symposium
• Division for Molecular Pharmacology Early Career Award and Postdoc Competition
  
• Can Chemicals Really Make You Obese? Recent Advances and Current Challenges in the Study of Obesogens
  
  Career/professional development sessions:
• Journals Workshop: Let's Get Interactive with ASPET Editors
• Science Policy and You: How Pharmacologists Can Become Science Advocates
• Thinking Outside of the Box: Career Paths for Pharmacologists
• Pharmacology in Color Symposium
• The NIH Blueprint for Neurotherapeutics Network
  
  Educator sessions:
  
• Embracing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Pharmacology Curricula
• Creating, Delivering and Assessing Online Content
• Teaching Blitz

Virtual Program Registration Fees

The virtual program is included FREE for everyone registered for the in-person meeting in St. Louis. The fees below are to purchase only the virtual program.

• $125 ASPET members and non-members
• $50 graduate student discounted rate
• $25 undergraduate student discounted rate

Register for the virtual program. If you already registered for the full conference taking place in St. Louis, then you are automatically registered for the virtual program too.