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If you took some images at the 2013 Annual Meeting, we would love to see them!
We have a gallery of images on the SPShare homepage and welcome submissions from those who attended and took pictures to add to the gallery. If you have a few you wish to share, please email them to Krystle Correll at k
In 2013, the Safety Pharmacology Society launched a certification in the field of safety pharmacology. The Diplomate of the Safety Pharmacology Society (DSPS) was an initiative created in response to an SPS membership survey which revealed a need for a certification exam in Safety...
Two-choice operant models show resistance to non-specific side effects. Recently an auditory model was presented complementing a previously published visual disturbance model. These models show promise for specifically addressing special senses, avoiding motor and motivational bias
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly went to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.
A timely start of preclinical assessment of drug abuse and dependence liability is essential to keep options open to redirect, deselect and characterize drug candidates. It's not just a matter of meeting regulatory demands and timelines but creating room for improvement and reducing late attrition.
