Friday 31 August 2012

Key themes and dates: 2013 EACPT Geneva Congress





The 11th International Congress of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics will be held at the International Congress Centre of Geneva from 28 to 31 August 2013. 

Registration will open 10th October 2012. Abstract submissions will also open 10th November 2012 and will close 15th April 2013. To receive updates on the congress before registering, you can submit your email address to the congress organisers.

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.

Aims of the Congress
To promote health and evidence-based management of chronic illness in an ageing population
To showcase recent advances in translational medicine and therapeutics
To explore recent developments in the drug discovery pathway
To promote safe use of medicines
To promote effective and safe utilisation of clinical pharmacological services in health care delivery
To improve and harmonise the teaching of the rational use of drugs
To contribute clinical pharmacological expertise to policy decisions in Europe and beyond
To promote high professional standards in drug prescribing
To promote high ethical standards in clinical drug research

Key themes of the 2013 EACPT Geneva Congress
Assessment of health therapies
Bedside pharmacology for special patients
Clinical trial methodologies
Clinical trial regulation, controls and benefits
Collaborations on vaccines
Diabetes mellitus
Doping: Sports and Pharmacologists
Drug interactions
Drug safety in emerging countries
Drug Safety: from clinical trials to clinical practice
Ethics
Gene therapy: expectations versus reality
Health economic assessment
Health issues and communication
How to become a good prescriber
How to become a good clinical pharmacologist
How to become a self-empowered patient
Inflammatory disease and biotherapeutics
Neuro-psychopharmacology: filling the gaps
New developments in therapeutic drug monitoring
New paradigms in drug development
New targets for pain treatment
Ocular Pharmacology
Orphan drugs
Pain control devices
Pharmacology and society
Pharmacology of chocolate
Pharmacovigilance (WHO)
PK/PD modelling
Precision / Personalizing cancer therapy
Predictive Pharmacogenetics
Special cardiovascular pharmacology
Special liver pharmacology
Special populations (prenatal pharmacology)
The use of molecular imaging biomarkers in drug development
Toxicentre networks
Updates in clinical toxicology
What's new in malaria therapeutics
Who should initiate drug development?

For further information on the August 2013 Congress

Secretariat email: eacptreg@mci-group.com

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