Clinical Sciences (CS) Section

About the CS Section

The Clinical Sciences (CS) Section provides the clinical research dimension within the comprehensive range of pharmaceutical sciences represented in AAPS and is concerned with developing knowledge and understanding related to the clinical use of pharmaceuticals (chemical agents and biological agents). The CS Section serves as a forum for those scientists engaged in research on the therapeutics and clinical assessment of drugs and biologicals. This section addresses the rational application of pharmaceutical and related sciences in the clinical setting, including the following: experimental design, conduct and analysis of clinical trials; regulatory aspects of clinical trials and drug registration; risk assessment, therapeutic extrapolation from animals to humans; pharmacoepidemiology; drug interactions; and in appropriate populations, therapeutic efficacy/safety and the response to alternative dosage forms. The CS Section provides an opportunity for interaction between scientists in academia, government, and industry who are engaged in clinical research. The section facilitates the interaction of AAPS members with scientists from other clinical organizations using joint formats such as symposia, workshops, and regional/national meetings.

The CS Section is please to offer through the generosity of Axelson BioPharma Research Inc. three Student Travelships to AAPS Annual Meeting (PDF)
Receipt of Application due: September 17th
Notification of Acceptance: October 8th

(You can contact the CS officers about issues of interest/concern)

2001 Initiatives for Clinical Sciences

1. Review and update the Clinical Sciences Procedural Guide.
2. Survey the CS section to solicit members who might be interested in authoring a book to be published by the brand new AAPS Press.
3. Secure a CS representative for program planning for the AAPS National Biotechnology Meeting (that will be replacing the Western Regional Meeting).
4. Continue to solicit CS membership to author two ACPE accredited continuing education programs via AAPS Online.
5. Survey the CS section to elicit interest and ideas for a CS online journal.
6. Continue to build the programming of the CS section for the annual meeting and begin to expand programming outside of the annual meeting. Currently we are working on a short course or workshop on clinical trial simulation that we are planning for Chicago in Sept. of 2001.
7. Expand our membership base by actively recruiting section members.
8. See the establishment of our first affiliated focus group, the Biostatistics Focus group.
9. Pursue the possibility of taking one of the successful CS programming ideas and repeating the program with an international organization.
10. Continue to promote the development and standardization of clinical scientist training programs.
11. Offer two $500 travel awards for Clinical Science graduate student presentations.

The CS section desires to have more of our members become active in the section. So...if you would like to help guide the future of the section, please let the section officers know. Everyone can help now by offering nominations for officers for the coming year and nominations for fellows from our section (please e-mail the vice-chair with your nominations by the end of February) or e-mail respective committee chairs with your interest in serving on their committee.