The European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT) has its origins in a working party in the early 1980s under the auspices of the World Health Organisation (WHO-Europe). After consultation across Europe a committee was created in 1993 chaired by Folke Sjöqvist with the remit to prepare the first congress of EACPT, held in Paris in 1995. At that Congress the founding EACPT Council elected an Executive Committee with Sjöqvist as chairman, Michael Orme (UK) as Honorary Secretary, Jochen Kuhlmann (Germany) as Treasurer and Giampaolo Velo (Italy) as Vice-Chairman, with 26 European Countries as members through their home country Clinical Pharmacology society or section.

Activities

The European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics holds biennial congresses. Meeting reports, proceedings of congresses and constituent symposia, and contents of specific lectures are published. The 10th Congress of the EACPT was held in Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

, Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

. The EACPT also holds summer schools. Delegates from 21 countries attended the 8th EACPT Summer School was held in Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 on the theme of "Individualized Medicine in the Postgenomic Era".

Lifetime achievement awards

2009 Professor Folke Sjöqvist, Sweden

2011 Professor Sir Colin Dollery, UK

Scientific award for best publication

2009 Dr Ian Wilkinson, UK

2011 Professor Tabassome Simon, France

Organisation

The European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics is led by an Executive Committee formed from a Council of delegates from affiliated national societies for clinical pharmacology

Clinical pharmacology

Clinical pharmacology is the science of drugs and their clinical use. It is underpinned by the basic science of pharmacology, with added focus on the application of pharmacological principles and methods in the real world...

 and therapeutics. . The Executive Committee Officers from the 2011 biennal congress in Budapest are: Chairman - Gonzalo Calvo Rojas, Spain; Vice-Chairman - Tabassome Simon, France; Secretary - Donald Singer

Donald Singer

Donald Robert James Singer, BMedBiol, MD, FRCP is president of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.-Biography:He was born in Forres, Scotland and attended schools in Iraq, Bahrein, and Scotland.- Medical career :...

, United Kingdom; Treasurer - Kari Kivisto, Finland.