Executive Officers
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At the Executive Committee meeting at EB2004 it was decided to
move from 1-year term to a 2-year term for officers. |
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Alice Young was elected to the first two-year term as Chair of the
Division, and Elise Weerts was elected to a two-year term as
Secretary-Treasurer. |
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Larry Carter was appointed to a 1-year term as student councilor on
the BPD Executive Committee. |
Memories of EB’04
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Dr. E. A. Walker of Temple
University pictured with her student Edward K. Brown, a SURF fellow
and winner of a SURF Travel Award, as they present their poster at
the 2004 EB meeting in Washington, D.C. (Click on picture to
enlarge) |
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Professor J.V. Brady, the 2004
winner of the P.B. Dews award, sharing a light moment with Professor
S.G. Holtzman, President-elect of ASPET.
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Sunmee Wee and Rajeev Desai,
winners of the Behavioral Pharmacology Division award for best
poster presentation by a predoctoral and postdoctoral trainee at the
2004 EB meeting in Washington D.C. Ms. Wee and Dr. Desai flank the
chair and secretary/treasurer of the BPD, Drs. J. L. Katz and C. A.
Paronis. (Click on picture to enlarge) |
P.B. Dews Award
 The
recipient of the P.B. Dews Lifetime Achievement Award
in behavioral pharmacology is Dr. Joseph V. Brady. Dr. Brady gave his Award Lecture, entitled “The Origin and Development of
Behavioral
Pharmacology,” on Monday, April 19, 2004 at EB2004 in Washington, DC.
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Events at EB '05
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HERE Saturday, April 2
7:30AM-7:30PM – Marriott Hotel; Marriott Hall 2
The Behavioral Pharmacology Society meeting; separate registration
required.
7:00AM-9:00PM – Marriott Hotel; Marina D Ballroom
Awards Ceremony and Opening Reception Sunday,
April 3
9:30AM-12:00PM – Convention Center, Room 5A
Hypocretin & GHB: Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical Therapeutics
Chaired by C. P. France and L. de Lecea
3:00PM-5:30PM – Convention Center, Room 5B
Social Structure and Influences on Drug Action
Chaired by M.A. Nader and K.A. Miczek
6:00-7:00PM - Marriott Hotel; Marriott Hall 2
ASPET Business Meeting
7:00-9:00PM - Marriott Hotel; Marriott Hall 3
Best Paper Competition and Student/Mentor Mixer
Monday, April 4
9:30AM-12:00PM – Convention Center, Room 5A
Role of Inflammation in Neuropathic Pain
Chaired by M.R. Brandt
3:00PM-5:30PM – Convention Center, Room 5A
Divisional Programming: Preclinical Assessment of Pain and Analgesic
Drugs
Chaired by S.S. Negus
5:30PM-6:30PM – Convention Center, Room 5A
Divisional Business Meeting
7:00-9:00PM - Marriott Hotel; Columbia 1/2
Joint Mixer with Neuropharmacology Tuesday,
April 5
9:30AM-12:00PM – Convention Center, Room 5A
Adolescent Drug Abuse: Long-term Effects of Exposure of the Developing
Brain to Drugs of Abuse
Chaired by R.N. Pechnick and K.A. Cunningham
Wednesday. April 6
9:30AM-12:00PM – Convention Center, Room 5B
Pharmacology & Phenotype: Comparing Effects of Drug Antagonism with Gene
Knockout In Vivo
Chaired by S.B. Caine and L.A. Dykstra
Annual Best Paper Awards
The Division congratulates winners of the Best Paper
Awards in 2004:
| Rajeev Desai, of the National Institute on
Drug Abuse NIDA, won the Best Postdoctoral Paper Award for his
presentation: Discriminative stimulus effects of SKF 82958. |
| Sunmee Wei, of the University of Mississippi
Medical Center, won the Best Student Paper Award for her presentation:
Reinforcing Effect of RTI31, a Slow-Onset Cocaine Analog, in
Comparison to that of Cocaine |
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The
division would like to congratulate the winners of the 2006 Best Paper
Competitions. 
All
applicants who participated in the poster competition were invited to a
“Meet and Greet Dinner” (sponsored by Eli Lilly and Co.) where
they could get to know each other and a few higher ranking members of
the division, in an informal setting. 
