Welcome. The American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) is dedicated to addressing the needs of future physician scientists with a focus on training and career development.
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A new report, issued today by an expert committee convened by the Association of American Medical College and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, for the first time defines scientific competencies for future medical school graduates and for undergraduate students who want to pursue a career in medicine. More information can be found here. The full report, and executive summary are available through the HHMI website.
Elias Zerhouni, M.D., former Director of the National Institutes of Health, has been named Chief Scientific Adviser.
www.ScienceTranslationalMedicine.org is being launched to help researchers more efficiently access and apply new findings from many different fields, explained Bruce Alberts, Science’s Editor-in-Chief.
“We need to find novel and more effective ways to better understand and develop, for patients, the extraordinary advances we have made in the past few years. This is why translational medicine has to become a more rigorous and, in my view, a redefined new discipline of biomedical science, with a vibrant and focused community dedicated to basic and applied investigations of the highest scientific quality, and without artificial barriers between its constituent disciplines,” Dr. Zerhouni said. “We should never forget that the public supports our research not just for its own sake but for its promise to bring new and more effective approaches to health across the world. I am pleased by the decision of AAAS to launch this journal." Click here for more information.
The Office of History, National Institutes of Health, is pleased to host this conference at The Cloisters, Building 60, National Institutes of Health, (Bethesda, MD) on March 26-27, 2009. Registration is FREE but seating is limited so register early. Click here for more information and the full meeting agenda.
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APSA 6th Annual Meeting
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APSA 7th Annual Meeting
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APSA 8th Annual Meeting
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Application Submission Deadlines:
Executive Council: April 15th
Committee Vice-Chair: April 27th
Regional Meeting Committee Chair: June 1st
Institutional Representative: June 8th
Standing Committee: June 8th
APSA as part of the Clinical and Translational Science Network joins other partner organizations in a joint Editorial "Translational Careers" in the May 15th, 2009 issue of Science.
The American Physician Scientists Association is pleased to announce that the APSA has received a multi-year (2009-2014) conference grant from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in support of APSA's National Annual Meeting in April of each year in Chicago, IL. This funding will help stabilize and strengthen the Annual Meeting. Through this grant, the APSA Annual Meeting will be able to provide up to 26 $500.00 Travel Awards to the Annual Meeting. Attendees from the 2009 meeting will be contacted shortly if they have been selected to receive these last minute travel awards. This grant will also further expand the reach, opportunities, and impact of the APSA Annual Meeting in our community.
Congratulations to the following individuals for being selected to receive one of the Inaugural APSA Travel Awards!!
Apply here for a 2009-2010 APSA leadership position.
Application Submission Deadlines:
Executive Council: April 15th
Committee Vice-Chair: April 27th
Regional Meeting Committee Chair: June 1st
Institutional Representative: June 1st
Standing Committee: June 1st
