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Dear Colleagues

Join this global gathering!

There will be more than 1400 contributions, including speakers and poster contributions. Without doubt, you should be there, too - and do not forget to register to the satellites as well.

The Congress will be opened by Dr Ronald Plasterk, Minister of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands, also renowned molecular and developmental biologist publishing widely in e.g. Nature, Science, Cell and PNAS.

Why attend?

Abstracts by invited speakers

Abstracts submitted for oral and poster contributions

A CD with all abstracts will also be in your Congress Bag

A warm welcome to the Third World Congress of the Board of Pharmaceutical Sciences of FIP (Fédération Internationale Pharmaceutique or International Pharmaceutical Federation).
The new millennium in 2000 saw the staging of the First Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress (PSWC2000) in San Francisco, bringing together 2,500 pharmaceutical scientists from around the world. The Second Congress, also with a truly global span, was held in the Spring of 2004 in Kyoto, Japan (PSWC2004), and attracted even more participants. The Third Congress is now to convene in Amsterdam (PSWC2007) with the theme of:

Optimising Drug Therapy:
An Imperative for World Health

The program committee, chaired by renowned pharmaceutical scientists, has ensured excellence in scientific quality and a high visibility for the conference. Like the previous two conferences, PSWC2007 will cover a broad spectrum of topics from basic to applied and clinical sciences, addressing timely issues of great importance to drug discovery, development, regulation, and medication management. It will also feature interactive round table discussions, poster sessions, a career centre and an exhibition, and will devote significant attention to young pharmaceutical scientists through poster and podium presentations as well as a pre-conference meeting for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.

PSWC2007 is co-sponsored by many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical science and education organisations and members of the FIP, including the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences, EUFEPS, the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, AAPS, the Australasian Pharmaceutical Science Association, APSA, the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Great Britain, APSGB, the Association de Pharmacie Galénique Industrielle, APGI, the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, Japan, APSTJ, the Controlled Release Society, CRS, the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, PSJ, and the Spanish Society of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology (SSPPT). In addition, an impressive number of other organisations have pledged their active (financial) support, and they are listed under supporting or sponsoring organisations elsewhere in the programme.

Over 1250 abstracts have been submitted by registrants from 70 countries. In total, PSWC2007 will offer close to 1500 presentations!
Apart from the main 36 symposia, 4 satellite meetings have been organised under the aegis of PSWC2007. These are:

Two pre-satellite meetings:
• As already mentioned, a meeting especially for Ph.D. students and Postdocs (co-sponsored by a number of organisations)
• A workshop on Pharmacy Curriculum Development (organised by Utrecht University)

Two post-satellite meetings:
• A meeting on Monoclonal Antibodies (co-sponsored by EUFEPS/EAPB/FIP/AAPS)
• A symposium on Microdialysis (Leiden University/FIP/EUFEPS)

And, finally,
• The Mid Year Meeting 2007 of ISPE, the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology, which partly overlaps with PSWC2007.

Everything is set for a highly exciting event and an important forum for the global community of pharmaceutical scientists!

The co-chairs forming the PSWC2007 Organising Committee, the Scientific Advisory Board and the leadership of FIP’s Board of Pharmaceutical Sciences welcome you to this Third Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress (PSWC2007) in Amsterdam, one of the most colourful cities in the world!

On behalf of the PSWC2007 co-chairs of the Organising Committee,

Daan J. A. Crommelin, Ph.D.
Chair of the Organising Committee