Future Directions
The early years of the 21st century will be focused on integrating basic and clinical research into a continuous spectrum of investigation to implement translational medicine techniques more quickly. The 9th World Conference on Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Québec City, Canada was the last IUPHAR meeting to present clinical pharmacology separately. The WorldPharma2010 - World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology in Copenhagen, Denmark on July 17–23, 2010 was the first completely integrated meeting. The expectation of merging these different approaches to the same discipline is to more quickly discover, devise, test and introduce new or higher quality therapeutics for humans.
Educational components will be emphasized for both existing pharmacology programs through an international initiative in Integrative and Organ Systems Pharmacology, as well as increasing and enhancing pharmacology training in developing countries through the Education Section. This topic will be a central theme of the 17th World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (WCP2014) being held July 13–18, 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa. The next congress will be held in Kyoto, Japan in 2018.
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