Meeting FAQs

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.” The Annual Meeting registration materials will be forwarded to your guest within a week of your request, or of registration opening if submitted prior to that date.

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

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Yes. All meeting attendees, including members, must register for the meeting in order to obtain hotel information.  The link to reserve hotel accommodations is in the registration confirmation email.

Yes. Members and non-members should complete registration online. Non-members must have an invitation from an ACNP member prior to registering.

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.

Associate Members may request one invitation from each Invitation Bank (see Invitation Banks below).

Only associate members attending the meeting may use their guest privilege to invite a guest from the invitation banks.

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

A member can invite one Invited Guest. Members may also request one invitation from each Invitation Bank (see Invitation Banks below).

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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. You must pay the accompanying person fee to attend the social functions.  The only scientific session open to the accompanying persons are the Poster sessions.

The General Invitation Bank is fixed with 100 invitations that members may request for someone who is within 10 years of their last training or someone with a first time R award or K award. Members may use one invitation from the bank. Guests from this bank may present a poster.   

The Diversity Invitation Bank allows members to offer one invitation to a scientist from an underrepresented minority group.  These groups include an individual who identifies as African American, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander, LGBTQ+ or a scientist with a disability. Members who request the invitation should vouch for the minority status of the scientist they are inviting. Guests from this bank may present a poster.

*Associate Members may request invitations from each invitation bank.
*Only members attending the meeting may obtain invitations from each bank.
*Requests for invitation bank invitations should be submitted through the Invitation Request system in the Annual Meeting Submission Site. 

You can chair or co-chair on one panel and speak on another panel (two maximum).

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.

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.

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.