Newswise — Brian M. Cox, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Pharmacology and professor of Pharmacology and Neurosciences at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), will serve as the new president-elect of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
The ASPET is a 4,800 member scientific society whose members conduct basic and clinical pharmacological research in academia, industry and the government. Our members research efforts help develop new medicines and therapeutic agents to fight existing and emerging diseases.
Cox has been a member of the ASPET since 1976 and has also served as secretary/treasurer from 1997 to 1999. He will assume the duties and responsibilities of president-elect in July 2008.
Located on the grounds of Bethesda's National Naval Medical Center and across from the National Institutes of Health, USU is the nation's federal school of medicine and graduate school of nursing. Students are active-duty uniformed officers in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Public Health Service, who are being educated to deal with wartime casualties, national disasters, emerging infectious diseases, and other public health emergencies.
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