Moving Targets

"Moving Targets" is an annual multidisciplinary scientific conference hosted by the University of Southern California and its local AAPS Student Chapter in Los Angeles California, to foster continuous professional and scientific interaction among young scientists from different schools within Southern California. Multiple schools from the greater Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, and San Diego counties participate in this one-day event. The morning session is devoted to invited speakers, and in the afternoon, the student participants hold a poster presentation session.

PGSRM

PGSRM is a forum for graduate students from universities across the Midwest to share their work related to the pharmaceutical sciences in a peer-reviewed environment. Students present and discuss ongoing research projects in order to broaden their scientific perspectives. The meeting attracts graduate students in the fields of pharmaceutics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, forensic toxicology, pharmacogenomics, and medicinal chemistry. Graduate students are provided an opportunity to interact with each other, as well as with representatives from the pharmaceutical industry.

GRASP

GRASP is considered a non-profit organization that is designed and implemented entirely by graduate students in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences in order to facilitate educational development. This is achieved by providing an arena for open interchange of scientific knowledge and ideas through poster and podium presentations. The meeting also gives the opportunity for networking and mentoring amongst students and faculty. In addition to these activities, career development workshops and guest lectures are incorporated to meet the career needs of graduate students. This conference, organized entirely by graduate students, provides an opportunity for pharmacy graduate students from across the country to come share their work, meet potential employers, and learn from the pioneers in the fields of pharmacy and pharmaceutics. This event is also aimed at promoting networking amongst the graduate students and giving them a chance to build valuable ties with their peers.

GPEN

Kyoto University was proud to host the 2004 Globalization of Pharmaceutics Education Network (GPEN) meeting May 26–28, 2004 in Kyoto, Japan. Since its founding in 1996, GPEN has biennially held major conferences to foster and facilitate scientific exchange among graduate students in the fields of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics at an international level. These conferences serve as a premier meeting ground and forum for pharmaceutical sciences research and education, providing 38 institutions with an arena for graduate students to share new ideas, hear international leaders in various research specialties, and network with current and future pharmaceutical scientists from industry and academia. These conferences draw pharmaceutical scientists from many parts of the United States and from many other countries.

PharmForum

The AAPS Student Chapter at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center along with the AAPS Southern Regional Discussion Group and the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy hosted the PharmForum 2004 meeting. PharmForum is a Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Student/Postdoc meeting, which was originally hosted in 2002 and 2003 by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences at Little Rock, AR. This meeting provides a forum for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to present their research work via poster and podium presentations. Additionally, the program exposes participants to invited speakers from leaders in the pharmaceutical sciences.