The EACPT Executive Committee was meeting in Vienna from 10th – 11th November to plan for future activities.
Key matters for discussion include
1. Future EACPT Congresses – the next is due to be held in 2019 in Stockholm as a partnership between the EACPT and the Swedish Society for Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. The Congress will address Tomorrow’s Healthcare Challenges and will be held at the City Conference Centre – 5 minutes from Stockholm Central Station.…
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The First Nordic Conference on Personalized medicine will take place in Nyborg, Denmark on 30 May-1 June 2018.
The meeting is organized under the auspices of the Danish Society of Clinical Pharmacology, and it is supported by a Sapere Aude grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research | Medical Sciences.
We are happy to announce that registration is now open and registration link can be found at: http://norpm2018.com
The full program is also available on the website here.…
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The European Medicines agency, in partnership with the ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control), is holding a workshop on global challenges from antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
There are 3 major current approaches to tackling AMR:
1. reducing selection pressure on microbes to reduce the chance of their developing AMR. This needs strategies to reduce overuse of antimicrobial medicines.…
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The EACPT 2017 Congress was held in Prague from 24th-27th June with 566 participants from all 5 continents – 28% from beyond the European Region, from Australia to China, Japan and South Korea to the USA. 487 abstracts were presented as 171 oral communications and 316 e-poster presentations were by delegates from the European Region and around the world.
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The field of clinical pharmacology has lost one of its pioneers. On August 17, 2017 Giampaolo Velo, cofounder and former chairman of EACPT, died after a period of illness in Verona, Italy.
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