Dear AsCNP Members:This is our eighth AsCNP Presidential Correspondence. Our previous correspondence can be found on
our website: http://ascnp.org/publications/pastPC.html.
AsCNP 2021 Singapore Congress
AsCNP 2021 will be held at the Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre on October 2224, 2021. I would like to announce that Dr. Gavin Dawe, the chair of the congress and AsCNP Council
member, became Head of Department of Pharmacology, National University of Singapore. Following
are the Plenary/Keynote speakers (Figure 1):
Prof. Andrea Cipriani, University of Oxford, United KingdomProf. Lakshmi N. Yatham, University of British Columbia, Canada
Prof. Roger McIntyre, University of Toronto, Canada
You can watch the AsCNP 2021 Singapore Congress promotional video on our website:
http://ascnp.org/images/AsCNP2021.mp4
CINP 2021 Virtual Congress (32nd World Congress)
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CINP 2020 Taipei Congress had been postponed until
February 2021. Moreover, the congress that will be held in February was changed from an in-person
congress to a virtual congress: https://www.cinp2020.org/Thanks to the rapid spread of teleconferencing technologies, we can stay apprised of progress in thefield of neuropsychopharmacology through such virtual congresses. Under the leadership of CINP
President Prof. Siegfried Kasper, the CINP 2021 Virtual Congress will be well organized. Two AsCNP
members, Prof. Tung-Ping Su and Prof. Noriko Osumi, will be Plenary Speakers. The AsCNP
Committee has been launched for this virtual congress. As the committee chair, I hope many AsCNP
members will participate in this congress. The CINP World Congress will return to Taipei in June 2022
for the 34th World Congress of Neuropsychopharmacology.
AsCNP delegates for ACNP 2020 Annual Meeting
The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) gives AsCNP six slots for researchers
and two slots for young investigators to attend the ACNP Annual Meeting and present posters. Thisyear, the following AsCNP members were selected for these slots:<Researchers>
Masayo Fujita, PhD
Takatoshi Hikida, MD, PhD
Takahiro A. Kato, MD, PhD
Atsumi Nitta, PhD
Seii Ohka, PhD
Tomiki Sumiyoshi, MD, PhD<Young Investigators>
Yui Asaoka, PhD student
Yukiko Ochiai, MD

The 59th Annual Meeting of ACNP will also be held virtually in December 2020.
50th Anniversary of JSNPThe Japanese Society of Neuropsychopharmacology (JSNP) is an AsCNP member society. Itcelebrated its 50th anniversary. Distinguished neuropsychopharmacologists, including AsCNPmembers (Jun Soo Kwon, Tianmei Si, Tung-Ping Su, Chay Hoon Tan, and Andi J. Tanra) sent
congratulatory messages to the 50th anniversary commemorative book, edited by Prof. Naoyuki
Hironaka. Messages from outside Japan can be found here:
https://www.jsnp-org.jp/img/about/JSNP50_memorialmagazine_02.pdf
AsCNP Executive Committee Meeting
The AsCNP Executive Committee meeting was held via Zoom video conferencing on August 6.
Preparation of the AsCNP 2021 Singapore Congress was discussed. The congress format (physical,virtual, or hybrid) was discussed after closely monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia. Regardlessof the format, the AsCNP Congress will be held in 2021. A renewal of the AsCNP website has also
been discussed. Our Guideline Committee was also launched:
Chair: Andi J. Tanra
Vice-Chair: Young-Chul Chung
Vice-Chair: Ryota Hashimoto
Member: Ming-Chyi Huang
Member: Kristian Liaury
Member: Hisatsugu Miyata
Member: Naren Rao
Member: Hiroyuki Uchida
Member: Shigeto Yamawaki
Member: Yen-Kuang Yang
Several Guideline Committee meetings have already been held via Zoom and by email. The next
Executive Committee meeting will be held on October 31, 2020, via Zoom.
AsCNP website renewal
Since responsive website design becomes popular recently, our website will be renewed soon. As oursecretariat announced, there are two candidate versions, blue and orange versions. I hope many AsCNP
members vote by October 29 at the website announced.
Stay safe and healthy as we continue to combat COVID-19 and learn from this virulent virus.
Sincerely,

Kazutaka Ikeda
AsCNP President (2019, 2020)
October 2020

Figure 1. AsCNP 2021 Flyer.