Vision 2020

A Vision for the Pharmaceutical Sciences

The pharmaceutical sciences have expanded beyond the discipline-based scientific environment of the 20th century, to encompass all areas of health science. With a global perspective, pharmaceutical sciences have the potential to advance world health through improved prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure of illness and disease.

The synergies achieved through interdisciplinary research have fueled scientific breakthroughs. As a result of efforts by pharmaceutical scientists, people are healthier, live longer are more focused on issues of wellness and disease prevention.

By 2020, the pharmaceutical sciences have contributed significantly to:

• Unlocking the mysteries of disease.
  
• Providing universal, affordable, high quality health care.
  
• Focusing world attention on disease prevention and wellness.
  
• Initiating early and accurate diagnosis of disease.
  
• Discovering a wealth of therapeutic modalities to treat and cure disease.
  
• Tailoring diagnostic and therapeutic methods to the individual patient.
  
• Fostering a partnership between the public, government, and all scientific disciplines.
  

AAPS in 2020

AAPS in 2020 is a global organization of innovators from the myriad disciplines that now comprise the pharmaceutical sciences. AAPS is a conduit for the open exchange of scientific knowledge. It excels in providing the resources and environment to enable members to advance the frontiers of science. AAPS and its members are leaders in providing health education and counsel to the public, peers, employers, governments, and health care regulators of the world. Mentoring pharmaceutical scientists is an important role and responsibility of AAPS, as is the direction of science policy regarding health care. Membership in AAPS is a statement of professional commitment to ethical science and service.

AAPS Mission Statement

The mission of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) is to serve the pharmaceutical sciences, promote the economic vitality of the pharmaceutical sciences and scientists, and represent scientific interests within academia, industry, government and other private and public institutions.

The purpose of AAPS is to serve its membership, the pharmaceutical sciences, the biomedical and biotechnological community, the health professions, and the interest of the public health by:

• Providing a forum for open interchange and dissemination of scientific knowledge;
• Influencing the formation of public policy relevant to health and related issues of public concern;
• Promoting the pharmaceutical sciences and providing for recognition of individual achievement; and,
• Fostering education, career growth and the personal development of its members.

Recognizing that modern science is conducted in an integrated fashion comprising many disciplines, AAPS seeks to foster the integration of those sciences related to discovery, design, analysis, development, production, quality control, safety, clinical evaluation, regulation, distribution and utilization of drugs and drug delivery systems. Thus AAPS should serve as the primary focus of and forum for interest in these disciplines.

Revised 1993