Dear AAPS members–
If you have seen a significant uptick in conversation across our AAPS Communities lately, @Stacey Axler probably had something to do with it! Stacey is our new AAPS Community Manager, working with @Maria Nadeau to support you in your AAPS Communities conversations and activities. She is also a social media expert, so you will see her across all of our electronic channels, including Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Take a moment to say hello, and if you have ideas or questions about any of our AAPS Communities, reach out to her. We always want to know how we can make your member experience richer.
I am looking forward to next week when I get to spend time with the very active Women in Pharmaceutical Science (WIPS) Community. They have done a wonderful job organizing a series of events around International Women's Day on Monday, March 8. I hope you were able to reserve a seat for the excellent movie Picture A Scientist and also earmarked time for our free webinar with Anne Phibbs: Still Work to Do: Addressing Sexism with Agency and Allyship. I will join the WIPS Community in conversations on March 11 and 18-links to those discussions are posted online. If you would like to join us or learn more about the great work that this community is doing, reach out to @Charvi Nanavati.
There are so many hot topics in our science right now! I am happy to see AAPS Communities collaborate on projects and hold joint meetings to discuss how they can work together to bring new programs and opportunities to the members they support. Just this week, the Regulatory Sciences Community, led by @Victoria Demby, met with the PPDM (Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Drug Metabolism) Community, led by @Patrick Ronaldson, to discuss ideas for future webinars and possibly workshops. You should be excited, because these are the people who also instigated our successful collaboration with the IQ Consortium on two webinars-the most recent one drew nearly 600 of you!
We have many workshops and webinars coming, too-and I am hoping that our new approach to scheduling them is helping you find time to attend. We are placing our webinars and workshops throughout the year now-rather than clustering them around PharmSci 360 and the National Biotechnology Conference (NBC)-because you have let us know that you value consistent access to great content throughout the year. We are populating all 12 months of our Four Seasons of Science calendar so you can follow the topics you care about and find new issues to engage with all the time.
Having spent a great part of my career in biologics, I hold our Spring Season's focus on biotechnology particularly close to my heart. Just this week we added another workshop to the spring slate-we will discuss the harmonization of qPCR assays in June! Stay tuned for further details! This event will keep the bioanalytical conversation going from the NBC (Registration is open and online program available!) to the July Bioanalytical Conference (Registration is now open!). Thanks to @Jim McNally, @Rafiq Islam, and @Amanda Hays for the well-thought out workshop proposal.
Our next workshop, though, is right around the corner. Have you looked at the fantastic agenda of our Vaccine Stability Workshop on March 24 and 25? This program could not be more timely!
We are also accepting programming proposals for PharmSci 360 until April 1. If you need inspiration for your proposal, we have just unlocked access to the recordings and posters presented at 2020 PharmSci 360. This archive is available only to members. I plan to revisit some of the most-thought provoking sessions and posters, and look up others that I've heard about second-hand, in the coming weeks. I still have the feeling that I did not get to see everything I wanted to see during the meeting!
In April our Board of Directors will discuss the membership of the new AAPS Scientific Advisory Board-you have until the end of March to apply or nominate somebody for this important group that will help the Board of Directors in setting the scientific direction for our society.
There is so much science and discussion happening in AAPS this spring. I hope you will continue to let our science inspire you to look up and ahead.
Tina
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