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The Great Dogsled Relay A Publication by The American Society for the Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Pharmacologist Vol. 56 • Number 4 • December 2014 The Great Dogsled Relay Inside: 2015 Annual Meeting Program BIG IDEAS Initiative The Pharmacologist is published and distributed by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. THE PHARMACOLOGIST PRODUCTION TEAM Prateeksha Nagar Suzie Thompson Rich Dodenhoff Contents... Judith A. Siuciak, PhD COUNCIL 2014 Year in Review President 179 Annette E. Fleckenstein, PhD President-Elect 182 2014 Contributions Kenneth E. Thummel, PhD Past President Richard R. Neubig, MD, PhD 2015 Election 184 Secretary/Treasurer Paul A. Insel, MD BIG IDEAS Initiative – An Update Secretary/Treasurer-Elect 187 Dennis C. Marshall, PhD Past Secretary/Treasurer 190 Meeting News Sandra P. Welch, PhD Councilors Charles P. France, PhD How Bostonian Are You? 205 John D. Schuetz, PhD Margaret E. Gnegy, PhD 208 Feature Story: The Great Dogsled Relay – Chair, Board of Publications Trustees The Race against Diphtheria Mary E. Vore, PhD Chair, Program Committee Scott Waldman, MD, PhD 219 Science Policy News FASEB Board Representative Brian M. Cox, PhD Executive Officer 227 Education News Judith A. Siuciak, PhD The Pharmacologist (ISSN 0031-7004) 231 Journal News is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December by the American Society for Pharmacology 232 Members-in-the-News and Experimental Therapeutics, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3995. Annual subscription 235 Division News rates: $20.00 for ASPET members; $45.00 for U.S. nonmembers and institutions; $70.00 for nonmembers 241 Chapter News and institutions outside the U.S. Single copy: $20.00. Copyright © 2014 by the American Society for New Members Pharmacology and Experimental 244 Therapeutics Inc. All rights reserved. Periodicals postage paid at Bethesda, Upcoming Meetings & Congresses MD. GST number for Canadian 247 subscribers: BN:13489 2330 RT. ASPET assumes no responsibility for the statements and opinions advanced by contributors to The Pharmacologist. Postmaster: Send address changes to: The Pharmacologist, ASPET 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3995. The Pharmacologist • December 2014 179 2014 Year in Review It’s time to raise a toast to a fantastic 2014! New Year, New Logo 2014 ASPET Annual Meeting at This spring ushered in a notable, new change Experimental Biology for ASPET – the launch of our brand new logo and This year we held an extraordinary joint tagline! After nearly a year and a half of conducting meeting with the Chinese Pharmacological Society branding research, interviewing members, and (CNPHARS) in San Diego with a robust attendance working with members and designers to come up with of 13,376 attendees at the overall Experimental the new logo, we were proud and excited to unveil Biology meeting and 1,321 scientists at the ASPET our fresh new look. Our new tagline “Transforming annual meeting. Our annual meeting program this Discoveries into Therapies” captures the important year was bursting with cutting-edge science led by work our members do and also conveys the outstanding speakers in our field. We awarded 82 message that you don’t have to be a conventional Graduate Student Travel Awards, 29 Young Scientist “pharmacologist” to be an ASPET member. Going off Travel Awards, and 5 SURF Fellow Awards and this new message of diversity, we started the “I am an welcomed 8 ASPET Washington Fellows. Be sure to ASPET Member campaign,” showing all the different look at our program for 2015, when we will meet in fields our members work in. For more information Boston March 28–April 1, 2015. about the “I am an ASPET Member campaign,” visit www.aspet.org/I_AM_AN_ASPET_Member The BIG IDEAS Initiative The Society also announced its BIG IDEAS The Pharmacologist initiative for the first time this summer and invited As part of our rebranding process, we decided to individual members and divisions to submit proposals take another step forward and redefine our quarterly for new projects that would directly benefit ASPET publication, The Pharmacologist. The 2014 editions of members. After two rounds of reviewing many high The Pharmacologist underwent a complete overhaul quality proposals, the ASPET Council selected three – with a bright design and feature articles full of BIG IDEAS to pursue: 1) Enhancing Undergraduate compelling imagery and graphics, in depth interviews, Engagement in ASPET at EB Meetings, 2) Industry and more information about A Publication by The American Society for Internships for Pharmacology PhD Students (IIPPS), the Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics members’ achievements. If you Pharmacologist Vol. 56 • Number 2 • June 2014 3) From Senior Mentor to Highly Skilled Career haven’t yet checked A Publication by The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics the A Publication by The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics the Stamping Out Coach: Breaking the Diversity Roadblock. We extend Drug TamperingPharmacologist Vol. 56 • Number 1 • March 2014 out the new editions, PharmacologistVol. 56 • Number 3 • September 2014 Oat Sprouts and our congratulations to all who were involved in the visit us online at the Topliss Tree: The Crohn RationalizingInside: SAR EB 2014 In Review development of these projects and thank all ASPET Call for Award Legacy Nominations www.aspet.org/The_ New ASPET Awards for 2015 House Spending members who committed their time and energy to Allocations Foretell Inside: Limited Growth for NIH Inside: Pharmacologist.aspx Message from the President: New Year…New Look Annette Fleckenstein 2014 ASPET Election apply to this initiative. For an in-depth update, refer to 2015 Annual Results Meeting Highlights 2014 ASPET Award Winners WCP 2014 Meeting in Review Annual Meeting Highlights SURF Spotlight page 187 in this issue. 13339 ASPET TPharm March 2014_PRINT.indd 1 3/18/14 6:49 AM December 2014 • The Pharmacologist 180 Fundraising and Endowments New Awards This year we met our endowment goal of $60,000 There was no end to our excitement when in toward the Goodman and Gilman Endowment Fund. the summer of 2014, two new ASPET awards were We thank all our donors who made it possible for us announced – the David Lehr Research Award and the to reach our target goal. At the Fall Council meeting, Reynold Spector Award in Clinical Pharmacology. The Council approved the full funding of the John J. Abel Lehr award is intended to extend funding for preclinical Award Endowment and also provided additional or clinical research directed toward improving human support for the Graduate Student Travel Awards. This health. It was made possible by an endowment to holiday season, in the spirit of “Giving Tuesday,” we ASPET from Mrs. Lisa Lehr in honor of her husband, have committed ourselves to raise funds for the Young the late Dr. David Lehr, former chair of the Department Scientist Travel Award Fund to help young scientists of Pharmacology for New York Medical College. travel to the ASPET annual meeting to advance their The Spector award in Clinical Pharmacology was careers and the future of pharmacology. A great way established in 2014 by ASPET in recognition of Dr. for you to give back to your scientific community this Spector’s dedication and contributions to clinical year would be to contribute toward this important pharmacology. The award recognizes excellence in fund. Your tax-deductible contribution in any amount research and/or teaching in clinical pharmacology. It will make a tremendous difference to the Society’s was made possible by an endowment to ASPET from efforts. For more information on how you can help, Dr. Reynold and Mrs. Michiko Spector. visit us online at www.aspet.org/donate. The inaugural presentations for both of these awards will be at the Annual Meeting at EB 2015 IUPHAR World Congress 2014 in Boston. Over the week of July 13–18, several members of ASPET’s leadership and general membership attended the 17th World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology held in Cape Town, South Africa. This was the first world congress meeting to be held in the continent of Africa and was attended by 1,500 scientists from 74 countries. An extraordinarily successful event, the meeting emphasized the need for new therapeutic agents to combat the vast variety of infectious diseases such as Ebola, Malaria, and HIV, prevalent in the African continent. The congress opened a way for the world community to forge new partnerships with African pharmacological A scenic view of Capetown societies to address the acute health challenges facing the African people. In addition to the Society’s Website Updates participation in high-quality scientific symposia at the This fall, we were pleased to showcase the congress, ASPET members Dr. John Szarek and Dr. simple user-friendly interface of our new 2015 Simon Maxwell spearheaded discussions on a multi- Annual Meeting microsite specifically designed for national IUPHAR-ASPET Pharmacology Education an enriching user experience. The microsite has Project intended to generate novel, web-based tools everything our meeting attendees need including the for pharmacologists. full meeting program, abstract information, speakers, and special events in an easily navigable format. Be sure to visit the microsite at www.aspet.org/eb2015 as we update new items weekly. Throughout the year, we have made a dedicated effort to enhance functionality and improve the overall user experience The Pharmacologist • December 2014 181 of the ASPET website, including adding new features, Journals refreshing content and building new web pages. We The ASPET journals have continued to lead in the have made numerous changes to the membership field of pharmacology. This year, DMD, JPET, and MOL portal, individual chapter and division sites, the began continuous publication, posting the copyedited awards portal and its corresponding submission site, and formatted version of each article as soon as it was the symposium proposal forms, and the publications ready rather than releasing articles issue by issue.
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