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November 11, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Pharmacogenetics-Pharmacogenomics Focus Group Business Meeting
Report of the Chairs Ron Norton and Maureen Cronin
Affiliated with the Biotechnology Section and encourage you
to support that group here and during the coming year.
A. Introduction
Affiliations. The PGx Group is officially affiliated with
the Biotechnology Section. We encourage you to support that section through the
coming year.
Volunteer Team, Members:
Felix Frueh, liaison with the Biotechnology Section chair
elect for next year.
Ryan Yates
Tony Kong
Elaine Mansfield
B. Purpose
To Encourage exchange
and discussion of current topics on pharmacogenetics and/or pharmacogenomics.
C. Tools
Our primary tool is our section on the AAPS website. We have
recently updated our listing. You may visit our section by opening the
Inside AAPS link on the AAPS homepage.
Select Focus Groups under the
Inside AAPS heading. Click on the
Pharmacogenetics Pharmacogenomics Focus
Group.
D. Membership
One of the pages on the site is a membership listing. We have 80 members. The Membership List includes name, title,
and organization. We do not list e-mail addresses or contact information on the
website. Listserv messages are not particularly frequent, but may contain
information of interest on focus groups, biotechnology, or AAPS activities related to
PGX.
E. Events
We’ve recently updated the Events page to list and link the
upcoming conferences that may be of interest. If you know of other events that deserve to be highlighted, please
e-mail the leadership and we will get them on the page.
The focus group has proposed a round-table discussion on Genomic
Challenges Faced by the Pharma/Biotech Industry, to be held at the 2003 AAPS
Annual Meeting.
F. Theme Issue and Virtual Journal
The current PGX theme issue is contained on this site. The
theme issue logs into PubMed and retrieves citations on a variety of topics relevant
to PGX. You may also check out Commentaries of Recent Articles.
Maureen Cronin is one of the editors for the PGX theme
issue. The 2002 edition should be
completed shortly.The Submission
Guidelines for posting news and articles to the site are listed there. We would like to encourage more postings to
the site.
G. Links
There are many Links to companies and websites with
information on PGX. Please check them out.
H. PGX Annual Meeting 2002 Presentation
Click here to view the presentation in (.PDF) file format.
October 22, 2001, Denver, CO
Pharmacogenetics-Pharmacogenomics Focus Group Business Meeting
Report of the Chairs W. Sadée and Maureen Cronin
A. Focus Group Activities
Programming. The PGx Focus Group will sponsor/cosponsor several
symposia in 2002, at the Biotech Meeting in San Diego, June, and the Annual
Meeting in Toronto, October. Workshops and short courses should be considered
as well.
Affiliations. The PGx Focus Group is officially affiliated with the
Biotech Section. Tom Zioncheck (Biotech Chair 2001) and Siddarth Advant (Chair
2002) were in attendance to emphasize the link to PGx.
AAPS PharmSci Theme Issue 2001.
In order to continue the series, more manuscripts need to be submitted (including
Commentaries). Guest Editors: Maureen Cronin and Michael Silber.
AAPS PharmSci Virtual Journal in Pharmacogenetics and
Pharmacogenomics. This represents a guided PubMed search, supplemented
by Commentaries and Select Articles (more features under development). Any member
of the PGx-FG is invited to submit Commentaries (also published in AAPS PharmSci,
and the PGx Theme Issue). Correspondents are appointed to write Commentaries
on select articles relating to PGx, and to screen submitted Commentaries. Current
Correspondents: Sridhar Mani, Felix Frueh, Laviero Macinelli, Ignarro Segarra,
Mark Dresser. Please take advantage of this opportunity to highlight current
papers and stimulated discussion.
B. Task for the coming year
Establish process of leadership selection and succession. Chair, co-chair,
4 additional members of Executive Committee. Liaison person for Biotec Section.
Institute a membership drive to attain "critical mass " for programming and
other activities.
Develop long range goals.
Develop strategic plan for scientific programming and
other activities.
Volunteers for Focus Group
activities
The following individuals have indicated willingness
to participate in the activities and leadership.
Elaine Mansfield, Sridhar Mani, Rao Pippala, Ryan Yates, Tony Kong, Ronald
Norton, Felix Frueh, Christopher Banfield, Greg Knipp.
C. Nominations
Thus far we have the following nominations:
Chair: Ronald Norton (Maureen Cronin will stay on as
Co-Chair).
Biotech Liaison: Felix Frueh
We need additional nominations for all positions including
the 4 members of the Executive Committee
Deadline November 20, 2001
D. List of Attendees
Maureen Cronin
Jean-Michel Scherrmann
Tony Kong
Tom Rushmore
Gayle Brazeau
Murali Ramanathan
Siddharth Advant
Thomas F. Zioncheck
David G. Rhodes
Pascale Anderle
Danxin Wang
Reginald Frye
Charles R. Yates
Felix Frueh
Gregory Knipp
Masahiro Nakano
Christopher R. Banfield
Bruce Maloff
Joanna Dunn
October 28, 2000, Indianapolis
AAPS Annual Meeting
The PGx Focus Group was established in October 2000, and the Focus Group Web
site was online for the AAPS Annual meeting. The membership meeting was scheduled
after the meeting program was printed, and was attended by the individuals listed
below.
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Ken Cundy, Xenoport
Barbara Perry, Rutgers University
Michael Rogers, NIGMS
Lynn K. Pershing, University of Utah
Philip Ramsey, Vical Inc.
David E. Smith, University of Michigan
Emil T. Lin, University of California San Francisco
Malcolm Rowland, University of Manchester
Ronald Norton, PPGx
Ignoio Segarra , Rutgers University
Masahiro Nakano, Kumamoto University Hospital
Pierre Chretien, SignalGene Inc.
Frank Beraub, SignalGene Inc.
Tomonari Kamei, Kumamoto University Hospital
Nobuaki Shiraki, Kumamoto University Hospital
Wolfgang Sadée, University of California San Francisco
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