Dear AAPS members–
Only a few weeks remain in our very busy year! As we squeeze in a few last meetings and review what we learned this year, I have become more and more excited about what lies ahead for us in 2021.
The AAPS Board of Directors had their last meeting for the year on Wednesday. The group took a top-line look at the fall's very successful PharmSci 360 and reviewed key learnings from the invaluable feedback we have received from attendees. Those lessons-many of them pleasant discoveries-will affect all our 2021 events.
The Board also reviewed and approved the Strategic Goal areas that form the pillars of AAPS' new strategic plan-an important step in our journey toward implementation. The Strategic Planning Task Force did an amazing job under the leadership of @Annette Bak, and we are of course very fortunate in having her as AAPS' president-elect, so she will be intimately involved in putting the Strategic Plan into practice for us. Look for more information on this soon! If you would like to help implement the plan, too,@Dale Eric Wurster and the Nominating Committee would like to hear from you! You may nominate yourself or a colleague to serve on the Board as AAPS treasurer or member-at-large.
This has also been another busy week of seating Scientific Planning Committees: the slates for the Land O' Lakes conferences next summer are coming together! We are delighted with the great expertise that has come forward from our membership to help shape these meetings. I hope you are as excited as I am about the great science that will be coming our way next year.
You may have heard our volunteer leaders at PharmSci 360 talk about our "Four Seasons of Science" concept. At its heart, it means that we aim to bring you engaging science all year round. We are making sure that our Scientific Programming Committees connect with each other, and we will further strengthen the strategic element of our scientific planning next year by forming a Scientific Advisory Committee that reports to the Board of Directors. Stay tuned for more information on that!
We are kicking off 2021 with the latest installment of our COVID-19 workshop series on January 20-21. This segment examines immunogenicity-both the immune response of the body to the SARS-COV-2 virus, and immunogenicity considerations for therapeutic proteins in COVID patients. You can already register for this workshop! As in the previous segments of this series, the workshop is free to our members-if you're due to renew, do so now so you can attend this event, or access it and other members-only recordings available in our growing elearning library.
As you are looking at 2020's remaining calendar pages, don't forget that the on-demand content from PharmSci 360 will be available to attendees until December 31. You may want to earmark some time over the holiday break to catch those remaining presentations that you have not yet had a chance to view. We have more than 350 hours of programming from the meeting-even I have some talks left on my list that I want to see, and a few more posters I want to dive into! If you are an AAPS member, you will have additional access to the archived content from the meeting next year: stay tuned for additional information on where to find it.
The forthcoming virtual National Biotechnology Conference (NBC) will apply the same on-demand content approach, so you can look forward to more exciting sessions at your fingertips in May. If you are interested in presenting a poster, please keep your eyes open for the call for abstracts opening next week. We will also be looking for abstract screeners-another great way to engage with our science and be active within the AAPS membership community.
I hope you are looking forward to a few quiet days off during the holiday break, and you continue to let our science inspire you to look up and ahead!
Tina
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