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.  You can also send an email to the ACNP Executive Office with the name and email address of your guest. The Annual Meeting registration materials will then be forwarded to your guest.

No.

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Yes. Members and non-members should complete an online registration. 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.  Corporate Representatives may present one poster.  The following limit applies: there are 15 poster presentations available for Corporate Representatives on a first come, first served basis.  The representative must contact the Executive Office (acnp@acnp.org) to request a poster presentation.  The attendee MUST be registered for the meeting prior to making a poster request.

Yes.

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. *Please note, the General Invitation Bank has closed for 2019.   

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.

A member requesting an invitation from either bank should send an email request to the Executive Office at acnp@acnp.org.

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.