What's new The 15th Annual Meeting will be held in Hong Kong on October, 2009. The summary of the 14th Annual Meeting (April 9-11, 2008) by Prof. Toshiyuki Someya was uploaded in the PRACP News. Ligand-Gated Ion Channels (18th Neuropharmacology Conference in association with IUPHAR) will take place as a satellite to the 2008 Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, November 12-14, 2008 in Washington DC, USA. Current Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine is the official journal of the PRACP. The Pharmacology International June 2005 issue presents the recent PRACP news. International Union of Pharmacology (IUPHAR) enlisted PRACP as an associate member society. For additional information on membership at the PRACP and the benefits of membership, please contact Prof. Toshiyuki Someya at psy@med.niigata-u.ac.jp