Dear AsCNP Members:This is our third AsCNP Presidential Correspondence. Our previous correspondence can be found on
our website: http://ascnp.org/publications/pastPC.html.
New Members
The Chinese Pharmacology Society Neuropsychopharmacology Section (CPS NP Section), which
has 88 members, joined AsCNP. AsCNP currently has nine society members. CPS NP Section
members Prof. Gang Hu (Nanjing Medical University) and Prof. Zhong Chen (Zhejiang University)
were elected as new AsCNP Councilors. Our current board members can be found at
http://ascnp.org/outline/boardmembers.html. Furthermore, more than 20 Individual andCorresponding Members newly joined AsCNP. The number of IABPP (Indonesia) members
increased from 20 to 47. The number of JSNP and JSCNP (Japan) members increased by 26 and 20,
respectively. I cordially welcome all of the new AsCNP members. AsCNP currently has more than
3200 members (2900 ordinary members and 300 honorary members/student members).
6th AsCNP CongressThis congress will be held in Fukuoka, Japan, on October 11-13, 2019:https://www2.aeplan.co.jp/ascnp/index.html. Late Breaking Abstracts can be submitted from July 1to July 31. The deadline for Early Bird Registration has been extended to July 31. A new
AsCNP2019brochurehasbeenuploadedontheAsCNP2019
website:https://www2.aeplan.co.jp/ascnp/data/ascnp2019_brochure.pdf. As of July 5, 995 participants (824for AsCNP2019) have registered for the AsCNP/JSNP/JSCNP2019 Congress. A total of 458
abstracts for oral/poster sessions (278 for AsCNP2019) have been submitted. I hope most of you
attend the AsCNP2019 Congress together with your colleagues. Please visit our travel agency’s
websiteifyouneedhelp
reserving
yourhotelinFukuoka:
https://www.tabikobo.com/corporate/mice/ascnp2019/en/; also linked from AsCNP2019 website).
AsCNP Lundbeck Science AwardAs I mentioned in the previous correspondence, the AsCNP Lundbeck Science Award was launched,with special thanks to Lundbeck and our Award Committee. The awardees will be announced inSeptember 2019.
AsCNP2019 promotion at WFSBPOn June 2-6, the 2019 World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) conference
was held in Vancouver. WFSBP kindly provided a booth for AsCNP2019 together with CINP2020(Photo 1). Ms. Chia-Min Huang, the secretary assistant of TSBPN, managed the booth during themeeting. The Taiwan Night was also held in Vancouver, and the future of Asianneuropsychopharmacology was discussed (Photo 2). AsCNP2019, CINP2020, and WFSBP2021 havemutually linked their congress websites: https://www.wfsbp-congress.org/related-congresses-media/.
CINP
Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (CINP) is an important partner of AsCNP.
The CINP World Congress will be held in Taipei on June 25-28, 2020. The CINP World Congress
will be held in Tokyo in May 2024. Please mark your schedule.
I encourage you to visit
http://ascnp.org/index.html.

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updated:Kazutaka Ikeda
AsCNP President (2019, 2020)
July 2019

Photo 1: AsCNP2019/CINP2020 booth at WFSBP2019
Chia-Min HuangPhoto 2: One of the tables at Taiwan Night in Vancouver(clockwise from left front) Chau-Shoun Lee, Chieh-Hsin Lin, Hsien-Yuan Lane, Po-See Chen,
Kazutaka Ikeda, Yen-Kuang Yang, Shih-Ku Lin, Ya-Mei Bai, Ming-Chyi Huang