2025 Theme

Sex/Gender Differences in Clinical Pharmacology

This year’s theme, Sex/Gender Differences in Clinical Pharmacology, explores how sex and gender influence drug response, safety and efficacy, and brings together world-renowned experts in paediatrics, geriatrics, education and global health.

Event Agenda with Speakers

Opening Session

• • Welcome Address
    • Speaker: Prof. Francesca Levi-Schaffer
    • Role: President, IUPHAR
  • Overview of the IUPHAR Clinical and Translational Pharmacology Section & Committees:
    • Speaker: Prof. Sarah Hilmer
    • Title: Conjoint Professor of Geriatric Pharmacology, University of Sydney,
    • Role: Chair, Clinical & Translational Section, IUPHAR

Thematic Learning Sessions

• Moderator: Prof. M. Isabel Lucena & Prof. Priyadarshani Galappatthy
• Sex and Gender Differences in Drug Treatment – Should We Be Concerned?
  Speaker: Prof. Ylva Böttiger
  Institution: Linköping University, Sweden
• Gender Affirming Therapy in Paediatrics: Perspectives and Issues
  Speaker: Prof. Michael Rieder
  Institution: University of Western Ontario, Canada
• Sex/Gender Differences in Clinical Pharmacology: What About ‘Baby’ Steps…
  Speaker: Prof. Karel Allegaert
  Institution: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Intersection Between Old Age, Sex and Frailty in Drug Development and Evaluation
  Speaker: Prof. Sarah Hilmer
  Institution: University of Sydney
• Pregnancy & Lactation: Not “Special” or “Vulnerable”
  Speaker: Prof. Catriona Waitt
  Institution: University of Liverpool / Uganda
• Real World Evidence from Mars and Venus
  Speaker: Prof. Nicholas Buckley
  Institution: University of Sydney
• Sex Differences in Preclinical Development
  Speaker: Prof. Bikash Medhi
  Institution: Chandigarh, India. Chair, Basic & Translational Sciences, IUPHAR
• Reflections & Discussion Session
  Moderators: Prof. M. Isabel Lucena & Prof. Priyadarshani Galappatthy

Poster Presentations & Awards

• General Poster Winners
  Announced by: Prof. Gabriele Stocco
• Research Poster Winners
  Announced by: Prof. Gordana Dragovic Lukic
• Student Winners Video Presentation
  3-minute video presentations by winning students

Closing Remarks

• Conclusions & Future Outlook
  Speaker: Prof. Scott A. Waldman
  Institution: Philadelphia, USA

About WSMD 2025

2025 IUPHAR Student Poster Competition

• All entries have to illustrate and reflect the 2025 thematic issue “Sex/gender differences in Clinical Pharmacology”.

• Two poster entries:

  • General Posters: open to all medical, pharmacy or pharmacology pregraduate students.

  • Research Posters: open to all medical, pharmacy or pharmacology pre- and post-graduate students.

• Winners of local society competitions due at IUPHAR by 4 April 2025 by completing the form linked above.

• 4 prizes awarded by IUPHAR.

• Awardees invited to present at World Smart Medication Day Webinar, 8 May 2025.