Update from Paris on Geneva EACPT Congress 28-31 Aug 2013

The EACPT Executive Committee met in Paris 18th-20th April with as major business 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.

EACPT Executive Committee at the Hôpital St Antoine in Paris

For the Geneva Congress, it has been confirmed by the local Swiss organisers Marie Besson and Caroline Samer that 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. 

 

Key themes at the Geneva congress will range from bedside pharmacology for special patient groups to pharmacology & toxicology, and pharmacology and society.

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

Updates from the European Association Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

@HealthMed The EACPT is planning two major events in the Summer of 2013. 

Professors David Webb and Simon Maxwell are organizing an EACPT Summer School for young researchers to be held in their home city, Edinburgh, 6 - 8 July, 2013. The programme includes keynote talks by invited expert speakers, workshops, poster presentations, free communications and social events. 

And August 28 - 31, 2103, the 11th EACPT Congress takes place in Geneva, hosted by the Swiss Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology. 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.

11th EACPT Congress website 

11th EACPT Congress updates

EACPT Summer School details