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The International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) is the single worldwide organization uniting all pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists. FIP is unique in the fact that it bridges pharmaceutical science and pharmaceutical practice on the international level.

FIP works together with the International Council of Nurses and the World Medical Association in the World Health Professions Alliance to support governments, policy makers and WHO in order to better deliver cost-effective, quality healthcare worldwide. details on FIP activities: www.fip.org.

What can FIP’s Industrial Pharmacy Section bring to YOU?
.... Or why you really should become a member of FIP-IPS?

  • Get immediately access to a global industrial pharmacy network.
  • Meet or contact your global colleagues by gathering their contact details within our IPS-database.
  • Share knowledge with colleagues and get new friends on the IPS-program of the annual FIP-congress.
  • Attend specialized technical, professional and scientifi c symposia on all topics that could be of value for industrial harmacists.
  • Be one of the disseminators of industrial pharmacy knowledge.
  • Play an active role in IPS, develop recommendations and support international guidelines and their harmonization in the fi eld of industrial pharmacy.
  • Receive free subscription to the quarterly publication ‘Industrial Pharmacy” normally 75 Euros per year).
  • IPS promotes the role of you as a pharmacist and the pharmaceutical scientist in the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Membership fee is dependent on your pharmaceutical experience and your residence (varying between 15 and 85 Euro).
IPS Congress Chair Prof. Dr. Adel Sakr (USA) with the winner of the IPS Student Symposium Lucie Novakova (Czech Republic) at FIP 2006 in Brazil.
Prof. Dr. Jin Shaohong (NICPBP, China), Pharmacist Renata Dias (Febrafarma, Brazil) and Dr. Qian Wang (Bruker, China/USA) during the IPS Dinner, September 2006 Salvador Bahia (Brazil).

Currently we have approximately 400 members and this number is rapidly increasing!

If you are a pharmacist, working in innovative or in generic industry, in larger or in smaller companies and in developing or in developed countries ...we gladly invite you to join us!

Visit our website www.industrialpharmacy.org



IPS Student Symposium Speakers, FIP 2006, Brazil: Vladi Consiglieri (Brazil), Lucie Novakova (Czech Republic), Teresa Cavanaugh (USA), Miriam Matuo (Brazil), Keon Green (Jamaica), Sally Makady (Egypt), Ziba Ansari (Iran) and Yasmine Gomaa (Egypt).
Pharmacists attending IPS-WORKSHOPS in San Paulo, Brazil, 2006.
Dr. Mathew Cherian, Workshop Chair (Italy) in a discussion with two participants in the Parenteral Technology Workshop, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2006.
Pharmacists attending IPS-WORKSHOPS in San Paulo, Brazil, 2006.