Did you miss the first deadline to submit your abstract? Here's your second chance to share your work with a community of pharmacology researchers, students, and industry professionals!

📆 Deadline: February 19
🧪 Submit your abstract today: http://www.aspet.org/ASPET2026/Abstracts

Congratulations to the 2026 recipients of an ASPET Editorial Fellowship. This program offers senior post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty members the opportunity to build important skills as a peer reviewer and as an editor. 🧪🎉

Don’t miss the largest pharmacology event of the year! Pharmacology researchers, students, and industry professionals will gather for four impactful days of science and community. Take advantage of early registration pricing through February 10!
https://www.aspet.org/ASPET2026/Registration. 🧪

Learn about Dr. D. Fernando Estrada's—the ASPET Division for Drug Metabolism and Disposition Okita Early Career Achievement Award winner—journey into science and his passion about mentoring the next generation of scientists.

🔗 https://thepharmacologist.org/member-highlights-dec-2025/.

Make sure to sign up for our upcoming webinar, designed for healthcare educators eager to enhance their teaching methodologies and student outcomes. Learn more and register here: https://ow.ly/Y8bx50XSW6e

There's still time to apply for funding opportunities to attend the annual meeting.

❗The deadline for the Supporting Our Scientists Travel Award is tomorrow. Applications for the Family Support Fund is Jan. 30. Don't delay and apply today!

Tomorrow is the last day to apply for the 2026 Guppy Tank Competition! The session will showcase translational science pitches from trainees who will be coached by mentors with established experience in biotech, pharma, and entrepreneurship.

Apply here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GuppyTank2026

Vrishali Salian, PhD, a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Minnesota, is the Molecular Pharmacology Highlighted Trainee Author for January 2026. Her research focuses on finding early warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease.

🔗 Read the research: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molpha.2025.100088

Congrats to the 4 recipients of Trainee Challenge Awards, awarded through a partnership w/ ASPET and the PhRMA Foundation, who have been recognized for their work in rapidly emerging areas in drug discovery research. Their award-winning research is free to read and share: https://ow.ly/V5jw50XR9Ws 🧪

Learn how to use AI tools to increase productivity, reduce administrative burdens, and foster a more engaging learning environment in this webinar, designed for #healthcare educators. #science 🧪

Register soon (space is limited): https://ow.ly/ZyVX50XLCZG

There's still time to become an ASPET member or renew your membership for 2026. Membership provides access to world-renowned journals, member discounts, networking events, advocacy opportunities and more: #applyhip#apply" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://www.aspet.org/aspet/membership-community/aspet-membership/apply-for-membership#apply

Congratulations to the 2025 ASPET Fellows! The FASPET designation is a prestigious honor bestowed on the Society’s most distinguished members. We recognize them for their achievements in pharmacology!

Meet the 2025 FASPET class: https://ow.ly/Yp8E50XLyIu

From early sanitation practices to lifesaving vaccines and antibiotics, military medicine has played a crucial role in protecting those who serve. Explore how medical innovation reduced disease-related deaths and continue to shape modern medicine.

➡️ https://thepharmacologist.org/military-medicine/

Raeanne Lanphier, a 4th year PhD candidate, is the DMD Highlighted Trainee Author for December 2025. Her research focuses on understanding why a small number of patients develop unpredictable liver injury from the antibiotic sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dmd.2025.100195.

Dr. Edmund Sybertz, in our interview with 3 prominent members of ASPET, reflects on the hardships faced by scientists this year, and offers his advice.

What advice would you give fellow scientists who have suffered a loss of funding? 🧪

Read the interview: https://ow.ly/KHkL50XAMaj

Attending #Pharmacology2025? Take some time to read these FREE articles - each personally selected by the Editors-in-Chief of our five world-renowned, peer-reviewed journals! #science 🧪

This summer, 170—including 28 ASPET members—pharmacologists, biologists, computer scientists, chemists, clinicians, and students from both academia and the pharmaceutical industry gathered for the ASPET-GLC Annual Meeting. Check out the highlights:
https://thepharmacologist.org/aspet-glc-nov-2025/

Attending #Pharmacology2025? Stop by the ASPET table! We're associated with some of the world’s most prominent scientists, including 16 Nobel Laureates, and our members make major impacts in health and medicine throughout their careers.

We look forward to meeting you!

📢 Calling all graduate and postdoc ASPET members: Applications are now open for the 2026 Guppy Tank Translational Science Pitch Competition. If you’re working on a translational science project, pitch your research to us!

More info available here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GuppyTank2026.

In this interview with 3 prominent members of ASPET, Dr. Edmund Sybertz reveals one of the most important lessons he learned in industry.

What advice would you offer a young scientist starting out in their career? 🧪

Read the interview: https://thepharmacologist.org/science-will-prevail/

📢 Apply now to join the 2026 class of Fellows of the Academy of Pharmacology Educators. If you've made significant contributions to education in pharmacology, read more about this opportunity: : https://ow.ly/OZrS50Xu57G #science 🧪

ICYMI: Funding opportunities are still available for ASPET 2026! Don't let funding challenges keep you away from the pharmacology event of the year. These grants make it possible for researchers at all levels to build community and share their work: http://www.aspet.org/ASPET2026/Abstracts

ASPET joined 21 other organizations to participate in the People for Effective and Ethical Research’s inaugural Hill Day to educate and speak to Congress about the importance of the ethical use of animals in biomedical research.

🧪Read here: https://thepharmacologist.org/advocacy-impact-nov-2025/

Harlie McKelvey, a Neuroscience PhD candidate, is the JPET Highlighted Trainee Author for December 2025. Her research focuses on understanding how repeated, spontaneous opioid withdrawal affects overall sleep architecture and brain activity.

➡️ Read here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpet.2025.103766.

In our recent cover story, Dr. Margaret Gnegy discusses the importance of pharmacologists, and how her own background prepared for the challenges of the field.

What's been one of your most significant career realizations in pharmacology?

Read the interview: https://ow.ly/H2gj50XALFf 🧪