Charles P. France, Ph.D., professor in the department of pharmacology, was recently elected by his peers to a two-year term as the president of the Behavioral Pharmacology Society.
The Behavioral Pharmacology Society, founded in 1957, provides a venue for the presentation of research on the behavioral actions of drugs. The society sponsors an annual scientific meeting which will be held in San Diego in April 2005. The members of the Society represent academia, industry and government.
Dr. France is a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and the American Psychological Association. He is also a member of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society and the International Study Group Investigating Drugs as Reinforcers. In 1999 he served as the president of the Society for Stimulus Properties of Drugs and he is member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. He also serves as an ad hoc reviewer for more than 15 publications, including the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology and the Journal of Neuroscience. His research, focusing on the behavioral actions of drugs of abuse, has been funded by NIH continuously for 17 years.
