Composition
IUPHAR members are national societies from around the world, however, the various sections and committees are composed of individuals from academia, pharmaceutical companies, and government organizations, all working together to advance the field. The Division of Clinical Pharmacology focuses on the needs and research tools for clinicians. The Committee on Receptor Nomenclature and Drug Classification (NC-IUPHAR) facilitates the interface between the discovery of new sequences from the Human Genome Project and the designation of the derived proteins as functional receptors and ion channels. In other words, as new discoveries are made in pharmacology, NC-IUPHAR provides a uniform guideline for naming and classifying the results in the public domain. Sections specializing in various areas of pharmacology have been established, including Education, Drug Metabolism and Drug Transport, Gastrointestinal Pharmacology, Natural Products, Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenetics.
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