There’s Still Time to Register for the 2019 Annual Meeting
There’s still time to register and plan your participation in the 2019 Annual Meeting’s cutting-edge scientific sessions and special events. 

Don’t forget to register for the Annual Meeting online and plan your participation in this year’s Symposia, Workshops, Roundtable, Science at Sunrise, and Novel Format sessions, and other exciting sessions and events planned:

Wednesday, March 13

• Join us for the first networking event of the 2019 Annual Meeting, the Opening Reception, sponsored by Certara. View Presidential Trainee, Late-Breaking, Encore, and Oral Abstract Posters, as well as view the presentation of the Presidential Trainee Awards, attend two poster walks, speak with exhibitors, and network with old and new colleagues. Toast and congratulate Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics Editor-in-Chief, Scott A. Waldman, MD, PhD, in his leadership of our flagship journal. 

Thursday, March 14

• Join us at the Opening Session for the State of the Society address by ASCPT President Dan Hartman, MD, and presentation of the 2019 ASCPT Awards. The first State of the Art session, presented by Penny Heaton, MD, Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, will begin promptly thereafter. 
• The President’s Networking reception, where you can view more posters, participate in two more poster walks, and experience more networking opportunities 

Friday, March 15

• The Innovation Forum
• Two State of the Art presentations by James (Jay) Bradner, MD, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Sciences, and Robert S. Langer, ScD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
• The Future of Clinical Pharmacology: An Engaging Conversation with ASCPT Presidents 

Saturday, March 16

• The Patient Forum
• The science continues until 2:30 PM and will include four Oral Abstract sessions

ASCPT is also pleased to announce that the Annual Meeting mobile app will officially be available next week. Watch for the Special ASCPT News announcing the launch of the app and download it before arriving on site! As a reminder, ASCPT will be providing a small, foldable schedule at a glance document on site at the Annual Meeting that will contain dates, times, session type, session title, and room locations. All other details about the Annual Meeting will be provided in the mobile app. 

Quantitative Pharmacology Impact & Influence Initiative
The ASCPT Quantitative Pharmacology Network invites members to contribute to new case studies for the Influence and Impact Initiative that broadly highlight the impact of quantitative pharmacology in discovery and development strategy making, as well as in regulatory and post-marketing decision making.

The aim of this initiative is to build upon the first version of the crowd-sourced compendium repository with new state-of-the-art quantitative pharmacology applications to increase awareness, advocacy for, and education in applied quantitative pharmacology sciences. In addition, the initiative aims to detect advances and new trends in the field. If you would like to contribute, please submit your interest by March 7, 2019, by sending an email with the title for your case study to Aline Barth, PhD, or Akshanth Polepally, PhD. 

For more information on this initiative and the Quantitative Pharmacology Network, please visit https://www.ascpt.org/Member-Services/Networks-and-Communities/Quantitative-Pharmacology. 

New From the ASCPT Journal Family
Translational Bytes takes a look at diversity in pharmacogenomics and all ASCPT Journal Family authors are reminded to register for an ORCiD. 

Diversity in Pharmacogenomics
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Clinical and Translational Science, Deanna L. Koretz, PhD, looks at how differences in race and sex can effect our understanding of diseases and treatments, especially when considering genomic studies and minority populations. The Translational Bytes post, ACCOuNT-ing for African Americans in Pharmacogenomics, is a must-read!

What’s Your ORCiD?
Use the unique identification number ORCID to connect with your publications. Publishers and editors across scientific disciplines encourage authors to use this ID to distinguish researchers from one another, and link them to professional activities. The great news is the ASCPT Journals already collect ORCIDs, so just input your number when you next submit and begin tracking your articles! Questions? Contact Emma Shumeyko at emma@ascpt.org.