Meeting FAQs

The ACNP Annual Meeting is a closed meeting, meaning that only ACNP members and their invited guests may attend.

Scientific guests attending the ACNP Annual Meeting must be 21 years of age or older to attend the meeting in person.

Attendees will be eligible to receive the credit hours for attending the 62st ACNP Annual Meeting, December 3 – 6, 2023.

There will be a $40.00 charge for scientific registrants to obtain CME credits. CME instructions will be available on the ACNP website (www.acnp.org) in December.

Please direct any questions to acnp@acnp.org.

CE (APA) credits are not available.

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The College has reached the limit of 400 member guest invitations.

If you are using your ACNP Member guest invitation, the quickest and most efficient way to invite a guest to the Annual Meeting is to include your invited guest information when registering for the meeting.

Additionally, ACNP has an online process for requesting guest invitations, which began in 2020. Requests for guest and bank invitations will be made through the online portal in lieu of emailing the executive office. To request a guest invitation, please login to the Annual Meeting Submission Site . Once you login, please choose the “Access My Dashboard” option on the Submissions page, which should open for you once you are logged in. On your dashboard, please choose the option to “Submit ACNP Invitation Request.”

Scientific guests attending the ACNP Annual Meeting must be 21 years of age or older to attend the meeting in person.

Invitation requests must be submitted by August 6^th in order to ensure your guest has ample time to register and submit a poster prior to the poster deadline.

NEW IN 2024:  Member invited guest invitations will be limited to 400. Please review the requirements for the Diversity Invitation Bank and utilize the bank in lieu of your member invitation, when applicable. 

No, Corporate Representatives are not permitted to invite scientific guests or Trainees.

Members, Fellows, and Emeritus may request one member guest invitation, one invitation from the General Invitation Bank,  and multiple invitations from the Diversity Invitation Bank.  

NEW IN 2024: Member invited guest invitations will be limited to 400. Please review the requirements for the Diversity Invitation Bank and utilize the bank in lieu of your member invitation, when applicable.

Associate Members may request one invitation from the General Invitation Bank and multiple invitations from the Diversity Invitation Bank. The 2024 General Invitation Bank has reached the cap of 100 invitations and is now closed. 

Only members attending the annual meeting may invite a guest or request an invitation from the invitation banks.

Please see “What are the Invitation Banks?” below for details on the requirements and limitations of the invitation banks.

All invitation requests should be made by logging into the Annual Meeting Submission Site.

Associate Members may request one invitation from the General Invitation Bank (up to the cap of 100) and multiple invitations from the Diversity Invitation Bank. The 2024 General Invitation Bank has reached the cap of 100 invitations and is now closed. 

Please see “What are the Invitation Banks?” below for details on the requirements and limitations of the invitation banks.

Only Associate Members attending the meeting may invite a guest from the invitation banks.

All invitation requests should be made by logging into the Annual Meeting Submission Site.

Invitation Banks

The General Invitation Bank allows members to request an invitation for someone who is within 10 years of their last training or someone with a first time R award or K award. Members and Associate Members may use one invitation from this bank until the bank reaches the cap of 100. Once 100 invitations have been requested from the General Invitation Bank, no further invitations may be extended from this bank.  Guests from this bank may present a poster. The 2024 General Invitation Bank has reached the cap of 100 invitations and is now closed. 

The Diversity Invitation Bank allows all members to offer invitations to scientists from a historically excluded group.

ACNP defines historically excluded groups as Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, individuals who identify as LGBTQIA2S+, individuals with a disability, and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds as defined by the NIH.

ACNP will make every effort to keep this information private; however, cannot guarantee this information would not be unintentionally released within the College through the course of inclusion efforts.

Members who request the invitation should vouch for the historically excluded group of the scientist they are inviting. Guests from this bank may present a poster.

The College’s Commitment to Diversity: The College and its members actively promote diversity and inclusion within the College and within our field not limited to race, ethnicity, religion, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, intellectual perspectives and points of view.

*Associate Members may request invitations from each invitation bank. The 2024 General Invitation Bank has reached the cap of 100 invitations and is now closed. 
*Only members attending the meeting may request invitations.
*Requests for invitations should be submitted through the Invitation Request system in the Annual Meeting Submission Site. 

Registration for the 2024 Annual Meeting opened in June 2024.

Members and non-members should complete registration online. Non-members must have an invitation from an ACNP member prior to registering. Invitation FAQ’s are in the second section on this page. Registration is open.

No. Onsite registration is not permitted at the Annual Meeting. All attendees must register online prior to arrival at the Meeting.

Admission to posters sessions, networking events, online abstracts, as well as access to all scientific sessions. Please click here for additional information on in-person food and beverage information. 2024 information will be updated soon.

Yes. All meeting attendees, including members, must register for the meeting in order to obtain hotel information.  The link to reserve hotel accommodations will be sent in the registration confirmation email. Hotel reservations must be made online using the link provided. Reservations made with the hotel directly or through other online outlets will not receive the ACNP negotiated room rates.

Yes, membership dues must be paid prior to registration.

A spouse, relative, or significant other who accompanies an attendee. An Accompanying Person may only attend the social functions of the meeting, which includes the morning breaks, lunches and receptions. All accompanying persons must be included in the paid registration in order to attend the social functions.  The only scientific session open to the accompanying persons are the Poster sessions.

A trainee is a person in a training position & not a full time, permanent position. A trainee can be a M.D., Ph.D., Post-doctoral fellow, Resident, Graduate Student or Research Fellow. Trainees have all the rights and privileges of invited guests.

Cancellation and Registration Changes Policy – The deadline to cancel or make changes to your registration type is November 10th.

• Meeting registration fees will be refunded (less $30 processing fee) if the Executive Office receives written notice of the cancellation to acnp@acnp.org by November 13, 2024.  No refunds will be issued for cancellations requested after November 13th. 
• Change of registration type:
  • Virtual to in-person can be made online. Click here for detailed instructions.
  • In-person to virtual must be requested in writing to acnp@acnp.org.
  • All changes to registration type (virtual to in-person and vice versa) must be made by November 10th.
  • Requests to change from in-person to virtual after November 13th will not receive a refund of the difference in fees. 

No.

Corporations must apply to ACNP for Participating Corporation status.  For information on how to apply, please reference the Participating Corporation Program Guidelines.  Applications will be emailed to the Executive Office at acnp@acnp.org.  Once a Participating Corporation is approved by ACNP Council, the designated Corporate Representatives will be selected by the Corporation based on the level of support contributed to ACNP.

Corporate Representatives are not permitted to invite scientific guests or Trainees.

1800 professionals in the field of neuropsychopharmacology.

Yes. A list of meeting attendees is available to ACNP members and registered attendees in the annual meeting itinerary planner.

An individual cannot be listed as a presenter on more than 1 submitted proposal (mini-panel and/or panel) per year and cannot be listed for more than 2 total roles (chair, co-chair or presenter). This maximum does not include participation in study groups.

ANNUAL MEETING SUBMISSIONS

Original data is preferred. If the abstract is accepted for presentation but has been previously published, it will not be published in ACNP’s journal Neuropsychopharmacology. However, encore presentations can be submitted.

ACNP does not accept late-breaking abstracts for the annual meeting.

Beginning with the 2010 Annual Meeting, abstracts will be published online only, and available for citation once published, on the Neuropsychopharmacology website from Nature.  Abstracts from 2007-2009 are non-archival.

All materials submitted for presentation at the Annual Meeting will be published in Neuropsychopharmacology and should be original and not previously published. Following publication authors may reuse their work with the sole requirements of full citation and link to the original publication online.

Any press release issued by a presenter, the presenter’s employer, or any other outside person or entity about a presentation scheduled for the ACNP Annual Meeting must be embargoed until the time and date of the presentation and should be clear that it is not sanctioned by ACNP.  This includes any detail of the abstract and the title.