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AAPS Membership

AAPS: Sciences, Careers, Community

AAPS is the only organization that brings together pharmaceutical scientists from
across the drug discovery, development, and delivery spectrum. As the foremost
international, interdisciplinary community of pharmaceutical scientists, AAPS
membership gives you access to people, information, and opportunities that will
strengthen your career.

Join AAPS and support our mission to advance the capacity of pharmaceutical
scientists to develop products and therapies that improve global health.

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Membership Categories

Every membership category has access to all AAPS member benefits and possesses full voting rights according to the association’s bylaws.

	One Year	Two Years Save 5%
Regular Professionals employed in the pharmaceutical sciences.	$210	~~$420~~ $399
Post-Doctoral Fellow Doctorates awarded a fellowship/traineeship or an equivalent postgraduate research appointment.	$50	~~$100~~ $95
Student Full-time undergraduate or graduate students.	$50	~~$100~~ $95
Retired Professionals who have retired from full-time employment.	$70	~~$140~~ $133
Retired Emeritus AAPS retired members with at least 25 years of membership and over 70 years old are awarded complimentary, lifetime membership and one complimentary meeting registration per year. Email [email protected] to verify eligibility and to enroll.	$0	$0

Auto-Renewal: Auto-Renewal is now available to ensure your membership never expires! Regular Members can enroll in Auto-Renewal and save 10% off membership in future years. By choosing Auto-Renewal, your regular membership dues will be charged to your credit card each year until you notify us otherwise. You may cancel at any time.

Attention partners: Interested in having a group of employees from your company join AAPS? Contact the Business Development team at [email protected] to learn about group membership opportunities.

Member Benefits

AAPS members have access to year-round virtual and in-person learning opportunities for every stage of the drug development continuum and career. Visit the New Members Welcome webpage for a full list of member benefits. These are some of the members-only resources your colleagues value the most:

AAPS Salary Survey is the only salary report focused on pharmaceutical scientists.
AAPS Newsmagazine offers current science, news, career advice, and more.
Peer-reviewed journals cover the breadth of pharmaceutical science.
Workshops provide in-depth learning with scientists who share similar goals and challenges.
Webinars bring insights and research from across the pharmaceutical sciences. Plus, members have free access to our archived webinar library!
eCourses are on-demand, comprehensive online programs taught by leaders in the field that provide the convenience of self-paced learning.
Weekly eChalk Talks offer a short talk, a few questions, and a little camaraderie. You can learn something new every week!
Signature conferences—PharmSci 360, National Biotechnology Conference (NBC), and Summer Scientific Forum—bring pharmaceutical scientists together to discuss and share the latest research.
Access to member-only Career Strategy eBook.

Our Members

Chinmay Shukla, Ph.D.

Clinical Pharmacology Scientific Lead, U.S. FDA

“I joined AAPS as a graduate student. My research was based on microdialysis, and I immediately joined the microdialysis focus group, which at the time was the only official one of its kind in the world. As a young scientist and AAPS member, I was able to connect with leading scientists from all over the world in my field of research and learn from them.”

Juliane Nguyen, Ph.D., Pharm.D., FAAPS

Professor, University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill

"AAPS brings pharmaceutical scienctist together from around the world and it covers great science in the field of drug development. The best part of being an AAPS member is the highly supportive community, giving you the opportunity to meet scientists from industry, academia, and government agencies and learn from their unique perspective"

Kevin Litwiler

Array BioPharma

“I’ve been a member of AAPS for more than a decade. I have never outgrown my membership, as I thought I might earlier in my career. Instead, I’ve drawn on different AAPS resources and opportunities as my knowledge, experience and needs have evolved. I’ve told people for many years now that I found a home with AAPS; I expect that AAPS will continue to be an important part of my professional life.”

Payment Information and Status Verification

Join AAPS online at members.aaps.org or call +1.703.243.2800 for assistance.

AAPS is unable to accept electronic fund transfers for membership payments.

AAPS conducts regular audits of students and post-doctoral fellows and may, at any time, contact these individuals to request verification of their eligibility. Continued eligibility is based on an individual’s ability to provide suitable documentation. Failure to provide such documentation may result in a change to the membership category.

AAPS Membership Cancellation Policy

AAPS membership cancellations received within 30 days of the payment date are eligible to receive a full refund. Cancellations received after the stated deadline are not eligible. Cancellation requests must be sent in writing by email to [email protected].

Please note, AAPS membership is non-transferable and this offer is not valid if you have taken advantage of discount member pricing for an AAPS meeting, workshop, or eCourse during your current membership term.

Refunds will be credited back to the original credit card used for payment, or if the member paid by check, a refund check will be issued to the original payer.