Dear AsCNP members:
Warm greetings! I hope you are keeping strong and healthy in this pandemic. It is with humility thatI am serving as AsCNP President from January 1, 2021, to December 31, 2022. In this first AsCNP
Presidential Correspondence, I would like to put on record our thanks to Professor Kazutaka Ikeda.
During his presidency, he has strengthened the relationships between AsCNP and otherneuropsychopharmacology colleges, such as the Collegium Internationale NeuroPsychopharmacologicum (CINP), American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), andEuropean College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP). The CINP Executive Committee has decided
to automatically approve CINP membership applications from AsCNP members. Professor Ikeda has
also organized an outstandingly successful 6th AsCNP conference in Fukuoka in 2019 in conjunction
with Japanese Society of Neuropsychopharmacology (JSNP, Annual Meeting Chair: Professor
Hisatsugu Miyata, an AsCNP Councilor) and Japanese Society of Clinical Neuropsychopharmacology(JSCNP, Annual Meeting Chair: Professor Reiji Yoshimura).
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Following are the new board members of AsCNP:
A. Executive Committee---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------AsCNP Executive Committee (January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2022)
President
Chay Hoon Tan (Singapore)
President-electTianmei Si (China)
Past-president
Kazutaka Ikeda (Japan)
Honorary President
Shigeto Yamawaki (Japan)
Vice-president
Andi J. Tanra (Indonesia)
Vice-president
Sang-Yeol Lee (Korea)
Vice-president
Shih-Ku Lin (Taiwan)
Secretary of Central Office
Atsumi Nitta (Japan)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------B. Council Members
1) to December 31, 2022
Suresh Sundram (Australia), Tianmei Si (China), Yan Zhang (China), Zhong Chen(China),
Eric YH Chen (Hong Kong), Kristian Liaury (Indonesia), Shigenobu Kanba (Japan),
Hisatsugu Miyata (Japan), Kazutaka Shimoda (Japan), Chan Hyung Kim (Korea),
Sang-Yeol Lee (Korea), Kyung Joon Min (Korea), Johnny Lokin (Philippines),

Gavin S. Dawe (Singapore), Ming-Chyi Huang (Taiwan), Shih-Ku Lin (Taiwan),
Yen-Kuang Yang (Taiwan), Manit Srisurapanont (Thailand)2) to December 31, 2024
Yanling He (China), Gang Zhu (China), Gang Hu (China), Naren Rao (India),Andi J. Tanra (Indonesia), Kazutaka Ikeda (Japan), Atsumi Nitta (Japan),
Hiroyuki Uchida (Japan), Moon-Doo Kim (Korea), Young Sup Woo (Korea),
Ahmad Hatim Bin Sulaiman (Malaysia), Melissa Paulita Mariano (Philippines),
Chay Hoon Tan (Singapore), Ya-Mei Bai (Taiwan), Lih-Chu Chiou (Taiwan)
C. Auditor (to December 31, 2022)
Toshikazu Saito (Japan)
D. Adviser (to December 31, 2022)
Xin Yu (China), Tung-Ping Tom Su (Taiwan), Winston W. Shen (Taiwan)
Updates
CINP2020 Taipei Congress was postponed from June 2020 to virtual congress in February 2021
CINP2021 Montreal Congress will be held in person in November 2021
CINP2022 Taipei Congress will be held in person in June 2022
AsCNP 2021: In view of the pandemic and Covid-19 variant uncertainty, options for the 7th AsCNP
2021 to be conducted as fully virtual in October 2021 in Singapore.
AsCNP 2023 in Sept, China
In Summary
During my term as President, I would like to expand the number of member countries and also tostrengthen research collaboration among members of AsCNP.
AsCNP President (2021, 2022)
Chay-Hoon TanJan, 2021

Photo 1: AsCNP/JSNP/JSCNP 2019

Photo 2: ACNP/AsCNP/CINP/ECNP Leadership Meeting held at ACNP 2018
(Top) Kazutaka Ikeda, Siegfried Kasper, Pierre Blier, Shih-Ku Lin, Steve Hyman(Bottom) Alan Frazer, Celso Arango, Anissa Abi-Dargham, Marina Wolf, Joseph Zohar, David Kupfer