Our Mission…
The mission of the ACPU shall be to provide a forum facilitating cooperation and the exchange of information and ideas between Clinical Pharmacology Units (investigative sites involved in the conduct of early phase clinical research). Objectives encompassed within this mission include without limitation:
- To provide the opportunity for individual disciplines at investigative sites involved in early phase clinical research studies to meet and discuss common issues and best practices.
- To create an operational infrastructure that facilitates the formation of scientific, technical and methodological foundations for the state-of-the-art drug evaluations.
- To promote the establishment of minimum standards of practice and guidelines for early phase clinical research activities.
- To foster the continuing education of its membership through the provision of appropriate educational opportunities.
- To foster international cooperative activities that broadens perspective in countries with emerging early clinical research activities.
Our Values…
ACPU shall be guided in the accomplishment of its mission by values that comprise the collective standards and ethics of its membership:
- Ethics of Human Subject Research, ACPU promotes the highest ethical conduct in human subject research. It endorses full adherence to the Declaration of Helsinki, applicable research guidelines of the local regulatory authorities, i.e. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, applicable regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the EEC countries.
- ACPU recognizes the importance of confidentiality regarding drugs under investigation, their properties and plans for their use.
- ACPU seeks to achieve balance representation of professions and of clinical pharmacology units in its membership, governance and organized activities.