In this issue:
ASCEPT 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting
Graduate Diploma in Drug Evaluation & Pharmaceutical Sciences: 2010, University of Melbourne
News from other organisations
Forthcoming Conferences
Positions Vacant
November E-Newsletter
of the Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists
Welcome to the November ASCEPT eNewsletter.
If any would like to contribute any items to eNews, please send it along to Meetings First for consideration.
Roselyn Rose'Meyer
ASCEPT Newsletter Editor
ASCEPT 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting
The 43rd ASCEPT Annual Scientific Meeting will be held 29 November - 2 December 2009 at the Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney if you havent already registered please do.
Program: The final program is now available. Please click here to download or copy and paste the following into your browser http://www.ascept.org/site/DefaultSite/filesystem/documents/FinalProgram.pdf.
Meeting Highlights include 10 Symposia and Workshops scheduled ranging in topic from:
Individualising Medicines; Academic Drug Discovery and Development; Development of Biopharmaceuticals and Natural Products; Understanding Drug Drug interactions; Translation of Pharmacogenomics into Clinical Practice; and many more.
Sunday
On Sunday 29 November, 1 pm:
Free Public Lecture "Obesity - Are drugs the answer?"
Monday
NH&MRC Grant Forum (6.30- 8pm Monday 30 November )
ASCEPT members who have served on NH&MRC panels will take you through the GRP process and advise on how to better position your grant.
Wednesday
ASCEPT Annual General Meeting, Wednesday 2 December
Special Interest Group Meetings will also be held throughout the Meeting- check the program for details!
Please click here to register online or copy or paste this link http://www.meetingsfirst.com.au/login.asp into your web browser.
You will require a password to log into the Meetings First website, please check the Meetings First website or contact Meetings First on ascept@meetingsfirst.com.au or 61 3 9739 7697 if you have forgotten your PIN.
Graduate Diploma in Drug Evaluation & Pharmaceutical Sciences: 2010
University of Melbourne, Australia
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Todays potent drugs, combined with the complex issues of their production and use has created a growing need for evaluation of their safety and efficacy. For such evaluation, wide ranging expertise is required in the areas of Chemistry, Pharmaceutics, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology and Legal and Ethical Considerations. This diploma course gives a systematic overview of these areas and how they affect the very practical issues of drug evaluation and is aimed at Pharmacists, Research Nurses, Scientists, Medical Practitioners and others involved in regulatory affairs. For more information please contact Mrs Nicola Cash Ph: +61 3 9496 3420, Fax: +61 3 9459 3510 or Email: njcash@unimelb.edu.au
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News from other organisations
Please click on the relevant links for any news from other organisations that may be of interest to ASCEPT members.
Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS)
1) New papers 2) new executive director 3) farewell (16 November 2009)
ARC Grants (26 October 2009)
Launch today of women in science report (19 October 2009)
Royal Society of New Zealand
Alert 597: 12 November 2009
Alert 596: 5 November 2009
National Prescribing Service
Member Update: November 2009
BPS Pharmacology Matters e-Bulletin
November 2009
Research Australia
Philanthropy Newsletter, Issue 2, October 2009
Research Australia
Thank You Day Awards - You still have time to book your tickets to the 2009 Thank You Day Awards Cocktail Party. Join the leaders of the health and medical research community as we celebrate Thank You Day and the achievements of the six outstanding award recipients. Book now at www.thankyouday.org
Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)
Newsletter: October 2009
ASMR Workforce Survey
We are delighted to provide you with a copy of our newly released survey "Planning the Health and Medical Research Workforce 2010-2019".
ASMR commissioned Dr Deborah Schofield, Associate Professor and Director of Research Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health (NRUDRH), School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney to conduct the study.
At the launch in Parliament House this morning, ASMR's President Dr Sarah Meachem said, Australia needs a program which creates a self-sustaining and agile workforce able to meet head on, challenges in indigenous health, the overt diseases associated with the ageing population and the emerging covert health risks associated with climate change. The development, design and implementation of informed, innovative and visionary policy reform is essential to attract and retain our best human capital and to expand international partnerships and collaborations.
Also speaking at the launch, Mr Mark Butler MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Health congratulated the Society on the report and referred to the importance of the study in highlighting the pressures of demographics and workforce retention faced by the sector.
Some key findings are:
- Australia has 15,200 PhD's within a health and medical research workforce of 23,400.
- 6,250 members of the health and medical research workforce will leave the sector by 2019, and of these, 4,000 will hold a PhD or equivalent.
- To maintain current PhD levels as a working population ratio to 2019, we must replace the 4,000 lost and add another 1,700 persons at a cost of around $810 million.
- Australia would need to expand 2.5 fold to be on par with knowledge-based workforces such as the European workforce. Australia would require about 5,700 additional health and medical research PhD graduates to be comparable with US levels, about 22,800 to be comparable with German levels and about 38,000 to be equivalent with Switzerland.
ASMR extends particular thanks to those organisations who have given their financial support for this study.
Catherine West
Snr. Executive Officer
Forthcoming Conferences
Progress in Clinical Pharmacology:
The Role of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and New Drug-related Biomarkers
16 - 17 July 2010
Stockholm
www.karolinska.se/pharmacology_symposium
The Program at present includes:
Day 1:
session 1: Pharmacodynamics and Biomarkers
session 2: Clinical Pharmacogenetics
Day 2:
Session 3: Pediatrics
Session 4: TDM developments for the future
(finishing at noon, registration in Copenhagen opens the same day)
A social dinner and boat trip are scheduled on the evening of Day 1.
This meeting is organised by Drs Olof Beck and Erik Eliasson who are keen to hear from potential registrants as soon as possible (email: olof.beck@karolinska.se or erik.eliasson@ki.se), with registration closing April 15.
WorldPharma2010
17 -23 July 2010
Copenhagen
http://www.worldpharma2010.org/
3rd International Neuroscience Conference
26 - 30 July 2010
International Conference Centre, Abuja, Nigeria
http://www.ibro.org/Pub/Pub_Main_Display.asp?LC_Docs_ID=3575
Positions Vacant
Looking for a new job? Listed below is a position currently vacant that you may be eligible to apply for. Please click on the link for jobs you're interested in.
Associate Professor Pharmacology
Pharmacology - School of Medical Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
University of Sydney
Click here for further information
Closing Date: 27th November 2009
The next e-news will be sent out on Friday 18 December 2009. If there is information you would like to include, please email it to athina@meetingsfirst.com.au by Monday 14 December 2009.
Roselyn Rose'Meyer
ASCEPT Newsletter Editor
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