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American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Announces PharmSciTM , The Association's First Online Journal
Call for Papers Issued
Wolfgang SadÈe, Ph.D. named Editor-in-Chief
Alexandria, VA - The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) announces the launch of its new exclusively online journal, PharmSci. This electronic medium permits a new approach to scientific publishing. PharmSci will offer a forum for the rapid exchange and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the pharmaceutical sciences. Manuscripts will be submitted by the authors directly via the World Wide Web; will be available to peer reviewers on the World Wide Web; and, once accepted and copyedited, will be available to readers on the World Wide Web. The journal invites manuscripts from all areas of the pharmaceutical sciences:
-Analytical Chemistry -Bioengineering -Bioinformatics -Biological Sciences -Biophysics -Biostatistics -Biotechnology -Chemical Biology -Chemistry -Clinical Pharmacology -Clinical Sciences -Combinatorial Chemistry -Computational Chemistry -Drug Delivery -Drug Metabolism -Drug Therapy -Economics, Marketing and Management Sciences -Gene Therapy -High Throughput Screening -Material Sciences -Medicinal Chemistry -Natural Products Chemistry -Pharmaceutical Quality -Pharmaceutical Technologies Pharmaceutics Pharmacoepidemiology Pharmacogenetics/Pharmacogenomics Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics Pharmacology -Physical Chemistry -Therapeutics -Tissue Engineering -Toxicology
Papers can be submitted immediately. The first issue of PharmSci will be closed for manuscripts published by March 31, 1999. PharmSci's instructions to authors can be accessed through www.pharmsci.org.
Wolfgang SadÈe, Ph.D., Professor of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California-San Francisco, was named PharmSci's Editor-in-Chief. SadÈe, an AAPS Fellow, received the AAPS Distinguished Service Award in 1994 and was the first recipient of the AAPS Research Achievement Award in Biotechnology in 1991.
"Launching PharmSci as an electronic journal will change the way we disseminate information. Supported by a strong association, PharmSci offers significant advances in publication, rapid publication with immediate international access, and direct links to other information sources. In this medium, we are not limited by the need to print, but we can use the entire resources of the web," said SadÈe.
AAPS is a professional, scientific society of more than 9,000 members employed in academia, industry, government and other research institutes worldwide. Founded in 1986, the goal of AAPS is to improve human health through the development of better pharmaceuticals. For more information about AAPS, visit AAPS Online at http://www.aaps.org.
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