Last Updated 30 June 2008

NC-IUPHAR 2007-2008

"NC-IUPHAR" is the International Committee of Pharmacology Committee on Receptor Nomenclature and Classification. The mission for NC-IUPHAR was initiated in 1987 at the Xth International Congress of Pharmacology. In 1989, the Executive Committee of IUPHAR named Paul Vanhoutte (Hong Kong) as chairman of a revised and enlarged committee. This committee energetically expanded its activities and the number of subcommittees (to 33), eventually producing the first official compendium on the occasion of the XIIIth International Congress of Pharmacology at Munich in 1998.  Robert Ruffolo (USA) was Chairman of NC-IUPHAR from 1998-2002.  Michael Spedding (France) became Chairman in 2002 and was elected again in 2006.  For more information, please download the "NC-IUPHAR Role, Procedures and Goals" in PDF.

NC-IUPHAR has the mission of:

1. Issuing guidelines for receptor and ion channel classification, and
   addressing the main issues in pharmacology today,
2. Classifying the major receptor and ion channel systems,
3. Facilitating the interface between the discovery of new sequences from the
   Human Genome Project and the designation of the derived proteins as
   functional receptors and ion channels – also designating the receptor
   polymorphisms which are functionally important,
4. Setting up a website with access to data on all known receptor systems,
   freely available to all scientists, anywhere in the world.

The current NC-IUPHAR was elected by the Executive Committee at the XIII World Congress of Pharmacology, San Francisco, July 2002 then re-elected at the XV World Congress of Pharmacology, Beijing, July 2006.  NC-IUPHAR members serve a two-year term.

The publications of NC-IUPHAR are published in Pharmacological Reviews.

Chairman

Michael Spedding, France

Vice-Chairmen

Anthony Harmar, UK - Database Chairman
Eliot Ohlstein, USA - Editor
Anthony Davenport, UK - Chairman of Evolving Pharmacology

Members

Tom Bonner, USA William Catterall, USA Philippe Delagrange, France Sir Colin T. Dollery, UK Steven M. Foord, UK Pierre Germain, USA Vincent Laudet, France Graeme Milligan, UK Rick Neubig, USA John Peters, UK Jean-Philippe Pin, France David Searls,USA

Corresponding Members

Stephen Alexander, UK

Michel Bouvier, Canada

Moses Chao, USA

Arthur Christopoulos, Australia

Franz Hofmann, Germany

Alistair Mathie, UK

Richard Olsen, USA

Ex Officio

Sue Duckles, USA - IUPHAR President Sam Enna, USA - IUPHAR Secretary-General Urs Ruegg, Switzerland - IUPHAR Treasurer Stuart Greenhill, UK - Receptor Curator Matt Wright, UK - representing HGNC

Past Chairmen

Paul Vanhoutte (China) Robert Ruffolo (USA)