[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 67 (Thursday, April 8, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17192-17193]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-8671]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Public Health Service; Office of Research on Women's Health; 
Notice of Meeting--``Biologic & Molecular Mechanisms for Sex 
Differences in Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and 
Pharmacogenetics''

    Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research on Women's 
Health (ORWH), Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health 
(NIH), will convene a workshop on May 5, 1999, 8:30 am-5:45 pm; May 6, 
1999 at 8:30 am-12:30 pm.
    The research planning workshop will address current and future 
research on differences in the ways in which women and men respond to 
pharmacologic agents. This workshop will provide a forum for scientific 
discussion of the biologic and molecular mechanisms that underlie 
differences in the effects and action of drugs in women and men. While 
data are limited, studies have documented differences between women and 
men in the safety and effectiveness of some drugs and, on a molecular 
level, in differences in drug metabolizing enzymes. The workshop will 
feature scientific presentations that will delineate the current state 
of knowledge, identify emerging issues or continuing gaps in knowledge, 
and catalyze discussion of methods to assess and predict sex-based and 
individual variations in response to drugs. The program will feature 
leaders in the fields of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, 
pharmacogenetics, hormonal influences on drugs, and new technologies in 
drug development.
    Also serving as co-sponsors of this research planning workshop are 
the Office of Women's Health of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; 
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Human Genome 
Research Institute; National Institute on Aging;

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National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; National 
Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research; National Institute of 
Environmental Health Sciences; National Institute of General Medical 
Sciences; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; and 
the Pain Consortium of the NIH.
    Advance registration and confirmation of registration is required 
as seating is limited. Individuals who plan to attend and need special 
assistance, such as sign language interpretation or other reasonable 
accommodations, should notify the Contact Person listed below in 
advance of the meeting.
    The workshop will be held at Lister Hill Auditorium, National 
Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville 
Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 30892. The contact person is Ms. Gloria 
Williams, KRA Corporation, 1010 Wayne Avenue, Suite 850, Silver Spring, 
Maryland 20910. To register please call Ms. Williams at (301) 562-2340.

    Dated: March 30, 1999.
Ruth L. Kirschstein,
Deputy Director, NIH.
[FR Doc. 99-8671 Filed 4-7-99; 8:45 am]
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