Pharmacokinetics Grants

Sheiner-Beal Pharmacometrics Award

Each year, the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Scientific Awards Program seeks to recognize outstanding science in clinical pharmacology. ASCPT Awards span the continuum of clinical pharmacology and recognize every turning point in the career path from young investigator to seasoned scientist.

The deadline to submit a nomination is September 24, 2010 at 4:00pm ET.

The Sheiner-Beal Pharmacometrics Award has been established as an ASCPT Award by the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to acknowledge the pioneering contributions of Drs. Lewis B. Sheiner and Stuart Beal to the scientific discipline of pharmacometrics.

Definition
Pharmacometrics is defined as the science that quantifies drug, disease and clinical trial information to aid efficient drug development, regulatory decisions and rational therapeutic decision making in patients. It uses models that are generally based on pharmacology, physiology, genetic constitution and/or disease for quantitative analysis of interactions between drugs and patients. The domain of pharmacometrics includes the application of techniques that address the interactions between pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacogenomics and disease progression with a focus on populations and variability in the exposure-response relationship.

Goal
The goal of the Sheiner-Beal Pharmacometrics Award is to recognize outstanding achievements at the forefront of research or leadership in pharmacometrics and/or application of pharmacometric concepts and techniques to enhance research, development, regulatory evaluation and/or utilization of therapeutic products.

Eligibility
The candidate must be an investigator or leader who is actively advancing the scientific discipline of pharmacometrics and/or its impact on research, development, regulatory evaluation, or utilization of therapeutic products, and is capable of delivering an engaging and comprehensive lecture on pharmacometrics. The award is intended to recognize clinical pharmacologists, clinician scientists, computational scientists, statisticians and others in academia, industry, government agencies or consulting whose work falls within the scope of the definition of pharmacometrics.

Prize and Presentation
The Sheiner-Beal Pharmacometrics Award will be presented bi-annually at the ASCPT Annual Meeting. The recipient will present a lecture summarizing the works that form the basis of the award. In addition, the recipient will receive a $1,500 honorarium and a plaque. Travel expenses, hotel expenses and meeting registration will be reimbursed by the Society.

For more information about the Sheiner-Beal Pharmacometrics Award, please contact ASCPT at (703) 836-6981 or meetings@ascpt.org.

American College of Clinical Pharmacy Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics Practice and Research Network Annual Meeting Travel Award

The Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacokinetics PRN will award a travel grant in the amount of $750 to support the costs associated with travel and attendance for an eligible fellow or graduate student to the 2010 ACCP Annual Meeting. This travel award has been instituted in the memory of M. Kelli Jordan. Kelli completed her residency training at the National Institutes of Health and had just begun her Pharmacometrics Fellowship at the University of Buffalo with Dr. Alan Forrest when she was diagnosed with cancer. Kelli passed away in December 2001.

Amount/Number of Awards Offered

1- $750 travel stipend

Eligibility/Application Requirements

Applicants must currently be a fellow or graduate student in pharmacometrics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacogenomics or clinical pharmacology at the time of the award. Applicant’s abstract must be accepted for presentation at the 2010 ACCP Annual Meeting (new research or encore presentation), and is research in pharmacometrics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacogenomics, or clinical pharmacology. The recipient will attend and present his/her research project at the Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics PRN Business Meeting and Networking Forum, being held on Tuesday, October 19, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Applications should include the following items:

* A copy of the submitted abstract.
* A current copy of applicant’s CV.

Deadline: September 10, 2010

Questions/Submit Applications To

Julie Oestreich, Pharm.D., Ph.D. (Chair-Elect, Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics PRN)

American College of Clinical Pharmacy
World Headquarters
13000 W. 87th Street Parkway
Lenexa, KS 66215-4530
Telephone: (913) 492-3311
Fax: (913) 492-0088
E-mail: accp@accp.com

Epilepsy Research Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Pharmacology of Antiepileptic Drugs

(Deadline for submission of nominations is September 15, 2010)

The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) has sponsored an award of $2,000 and a Certification of Citation to be awarded by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, for the purpose of recognizing and stimulating outstanding research leading to better clinical control of epileptic seizures. This research may include the basic screening and testing of new therapeutic agents, studies on mechanisms of action, metabolic disposition, pharmacokinetics, and clinical pharmacology studies.

The recipient will be selected by the Epilepsy Award Committee appointed by the President of ASPET, with representation of ILAE. Judgment will be based upon the significance of the candidate’s contribution to the treatment of epileptic seizures in human subjects. Selection will be free of restrictions on age, sex, nationality, institutional affiliation, or membership in scientific societies. The nominee must be actively engaged in research for which the Award is made, and primary emphasis will be placed upon work accomplished in the five-year period prior to each Award.

Nominations for the Award may be submitted by members of any recognized scientific association, domestic or foreign.

Nominations shall be submitted electronically to jane.nelson@aspet.org and shall consist of:

1. A summary describing the nominee’s major achievements.
2. Candidate’s curriculum vitae and bibliography.
3. Six of the nominee’s most significant papers, published or accepted for publication (provided as PDFs or as hyperlinks to the article). Submit each manuscript PDF as a separate attachment.

The biennial award shall be presented to the recipient at the annual meeting of ASPET. Hotel and economy airfare to the annual meeting for the recipient and his/her spouse will be provided.

Receipt date for nominations for the Epilepsy Research Award will be 5:00 pm on September 15, 2010 for an award to be presented at Experimental Biology ’11 in Washington, DC.

American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3995
(301) 634-7060 info@aspet.org