Impas.in Website Review

indian medical pharmacologists as*ociation (impa) is an as*ociation for medical pharmacologists to interact and disseminate the knowledge india. this is formed by a team of young and dynamic md pharmacologists with the guidance from the senior pharmacologists. the idea to form impa struck in my mind when i attended the world congress of clinical and basic pharmacology (wcp) 2014, capetown, for which i was given registration and travel bursaries by iuphar, to present my research papers on type 2 diabetes. read more pharmacology is a rapidly evolving field. in india, it all started when the as*ociation of physiologists and pharmacologists (appi) was formed and the budding field of pharmacology had its first as*ociation for itself in independent india. in due course pharmacologists felt the need for a separate space for themselves and so the indian pharmacological society (ips) was formed. it included pharmacologists. short term: revision of md pharmacology curriculum and implementation ofshort term industrial internships (stii).. promote the implementation of tdm laboratories in all medical college hospitals and formation of clinical pharmacology division in all. postgraduate pharmacology departments. this will herald an interaction between clinical departments and pharmacology department, which. currently happens only in few colleges. also, to sensitize the need for pharmacogenetic based therapy. this may sound too realistic. but. when i had attended the pharmacogenomic workshop last august,2014 i came to know that jipmer was being sponsored by icmr for the past. decade to conduct the workshop for a group of 20 participants per year. therefore, currently there are more than 200 participants. available, including the post graduates at jipmer, in india who had been trained in pharmacogenomics (pgx). so even if the government. with pgx facility. and as i inquired at jipmer, the cost of testing per sample for a cyp enzyme is roughly around rs.500 with real time.