1st DIA Annual Japan Workshop for Pharmacogenomics in Tokyo

Abstract

The Drug Information Association academia at the meeting; Tohru Masui (DIA)-sponsored First Annual Japan Workshop for Pharmacogenomics (PGx) was held on September 2 and 3, 2004, at Shinjuku in Tokyo, Japan [101]. This was one of the two workshops started in 2004 together with regulatory affairs (Figure 1). This workshop, which was also organized in collaboration with the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS), provided a platform to introduce the activities of the CIOMS Working Group on Pharmacogenetics (CIOMS PGt WG), which was established in 2002 [102]. In addition, general trends and the regulatory and ethical aspects of PGx in the USA, Europe, Asia and Japan were reported and discussed. This report summarizes the outline of the workshop and the individual topics that were presented. Although presentations of the findings of basic and clinical research were also reported, this paper refers only to the regulatory, ethical and social dimensions of PGx.