American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Formation1908
HeadquartersRockville, MD
Location
  • United States
Membership
4,800
Official language
English
President
Michael F. Jarvis
Key people
Dave Jackson (executive officer)
Staff17
Websitehttp://www.aspet.org/

The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) is a scientific society founded in late 1908 by John Jacob Abel of Johns Hopkins University (also the founder of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), with the aim of promoting the growth of pharmacological research.[1][2] Many society members are researchers in basic and clinical pharmacology who help develop disease-fighting medications and therapeutics.[3] ASPET is one of the constituent societies of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB).[4] The society's headquarters are in Rockville, MD. The current president is Michael F. Jarvis.[5]

  1. ^ Chen, K. K., International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics - The First Sixty Years 1908-1969], American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 1969, p6. International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences
  2. ^ Parascandola, J., A Brief History of ASPET on Its Centennial Anniversary, Molecular Interventions 7: 288-302 (2007), p288.
  3. ^ About ASPET, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
  4. ^ Constituent Societies, FASEB, retrieved 18 August 2010
  5. ^ ASPET Council, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics