ASPET
Organizational Structure
What
are the ASPET Divisions?
What are the ASPET Chapters?
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ASPET
DIVISIONS
ASPET has Divisions to
facilitate interaction among members with similar research
interests.
Division
for Behavioral Pharmacology
The Division for Behavioral
Pharmacology serves members with interests in behavioral
pharmacology from the molecular basis of behavior through the
clinical pharmacology of treating behavioral disorders. This
includes, but is not limited to: design of new pharmacological
agents to treat behavioral disorders, pharmacologically relevant
studies on the genetics of behavioral disorders, and the study of
drug and alcohol abuse and pharmacological treatments.
Division for Cardiovascular
Pharmacology
The Division for Cardiovascular Pharmacology serves
members with interests in all aspects of cardiovascular pharmacology research from the
molecular level to whole animal studies. Specific areas include, but are not limited to,
mechanisms of cardiovascular drug action, cell signaling, autonomic pharmacology,
cardiac pharmacology, endothelial and smooth muscle cell pharmacology, thrombosis,
blood - vessel wall interactions, and mechanism involved in the pathogenesis,
diagnosis and treatment of cardiac, renal pulmonary and cerebral vascular disease,
including hypertension, coronary artery disease and stroke.
Division for Clinical
Pharmacology, Pharmacogenomics, and Tranlsational Medicine
The Division for Clinical Pharmacology serves members
involved in translational research identifying and utilizing novel targets for the
development of new therapeutic entities.
Division for Drug
Discovery, Drug Development, and Regulatory Affairs
The Division for Drug Discovery, Drug Development and
Regulatory Affairs will impact pharmacologists in industry, government and academia with
interests in all phases of the drug development process. The goal of the Division is to
promote interaction between discovery scientists, physicians and regulators as we
attempt to integrate the broad expanse of skills required to translate the
identification of a novel molecular target into a clinically useful therapeutic entity.
The DDDRA will serve to help its members teach, present and discuss the critical role of
pharmacology in all phases of the drug discovery, development and registration process.
The process encompasses, but is not limited to; target discovery and validation,
medicinal chemistry, combinatorial chemistry, molecular modeling and drug design,
structure-pharmacological function relationships, functional genomics and proteomics,
high throughput screening, identification and development of natural products,
nutraceuticals, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, clinical testing and drug
regulation/registration, clinical contracting and pharmacoepidemiology and
pharmacoeconomics. Furthermore, the Division plans to provide special venues at annual
meetings to Pharmacology graduate students and post-doctoral fellows involved in
scientific activities of interest to the DDDRA membership as well as sponsor symposia
and/or colloquia.
Division for Drug
Metabolism
The Division for Drug Metabolism serves members with
interests in all aspects of drug metabolism from the molecular through the phenotypic
expression of polymorphisms in humans. Specific areas include, but are not limited
to, pharmacogenetics of metabolism, regulation of the drug metabolizing and conjugating
enzymes, pharmacokinetics, metabolite identification, role of drug metabolism in
drug discovery and development, structure-function relationships of relevant
enzyme systems, free radicals and reactive intermediates, studies focusing on all
drug-metabolizing enzymes.
Division for Molecular
Pharmacology
The Division for Molecular Pharmacology serves members
applying approaches of biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, and molecular biology to
study molecular mechanisms of drug action, regardless of the class of drug. Areas of
interest include (but are not limited to): drug receptor-effector coupling and its
regulation (e.g. receptor-structure/function, G proteins, kinases, phosphatases, and
second messenger synthesis and degradation), voltage- and ligand-gated ion channels,
antimicrobial and antineoplastic drug action, steroid and growth factor receptors, gene
regulation, and identification of molecular targets for drugs.
Division for
Neuropharmacology
The Division for
Neuropharmacology serves members with interests in all aspects of
neuropharmacology research from studies in the central nervous
system to peripheral autonomic pharmacology. Specific areas
include, but are not limited to, neurochemistry, neurotransmission,
neurotoxicity of drugs, neural receptor pharmacology, signal
transduction in neural tissue, mechanisms of nervous system
disorders, treatment of nervous system disorders, the pharmacology
of drugs acting on the central nervous system (anesthetics,
analgesics, antipsychotic drugs, antianxiety drugs, antiepileptic
drugs, drugs for migraine, drugs for degenerative disorders), the
pharmacology of drugs acting on the peripheral nervous system (sympathomimetics,
antihypertensive drugs, cholinergic agents, nitric oxide synthase
inhibitors), alcohol and drug addiction, drugs of abuse, and
behavioral pharmacology.
Division for Pharmacology
Education
The
Division for Pharmacology Education serves members with interests in
all aspects of education related to drug development and action.
This group brings together scientists who have an interest in
the teaching of pharmacology to undergraduate through professional,
graduate and postgraduate learners. The Division serves as a format to discuss and disseminate
innovations in teaching, promote the scholarship of education,
explore new paradigms in education such as distance learning and
standardized materials, and increase communication between
pharmacology educators in Society meetings and throughout the year.
The DPE will foster linkages between other divisions of ASPET
and with educational components of other FASEB societies.
Division for Systems and
Integrative Pharmacology
The Division for Systems and Integrative Pharmacology is
intended to bring together scientists who work in physiological systems and share a
common perspective of pharmacology as an integrated discipline within the
organism. Individuals working in GI pharmacology, pulmonary pharmacology,
reproductive pharmacology, Immunopharma-cology, ocular pharmacology, smooth muscle
pharmacology, dermatopharmacology, or across several of these systems might be expected
to find a home in the Division for Systems and Integrative Pharmacology. While
there are separate Divisions for Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Neuropharmacology for
scientists working in those systems, many members of those divisions will also be
interested in the Division for Systems and Integrative Pharmacology and ASPET members
are encouraged to join as many divisions as they find appropriate.
Division for Toxicology
The Division for Toxicology serves members with interests
in all aspects of toxicology, including (but not limited to)
neurotoxicology,
teratology, molecular and cellular mechanisms of drug and chemical toxicity,
immunotoxicology, organ toxicities, risk assessment, environmental toxicology, models of
toxic injury, toxic intermediates, and mechanisms of chemical interactions.
ASPET
CHAPTERS
ASPET has four regional Chapters and a Student
Chapter. The Regional Chapter meetings provide opportunities,
particularly for students, to meet at regional venues to discuss
their research. Poster competitions for students and
postdoctoral fellows are a feature of the regional Chapter
meetings. The Student Chapter provides an opportunity for
Student members of ASPET to meet at the ASPET Annual Meeting to
exchange ideas.
Great
Lakes Chapter of ASPET
A regional Chapter of ASPET serving the upper
mid-west surrounding the Chicago area.
Mid-Atlantic
Pharmacology Society
A regional Chapter of ASPET serving
the mid-Atlantic area surrounding Philadelphia.
New
England Pharmacologists
A regional Chapter of ASPET serving New England.
Southeastern
Pharmacology Society
A regional Chapter of ASPET serving the
greater southeastern area.
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