National Postdoctoral Association

October 13, 2011

The National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) is pleased to announce that Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Executive Publisher of Science, will be the Keynote Speaker for the NPA 10th Annual Meeting.

The meeting will take place March 16-18, 2012, in San Francisco, Calif., at the elegant Sir Francis Drake Hotel.

Dr. Leshner has been Chief Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Executive Publisher of the journal Science since December 2001. AAAS (triple A-S) was founded in 1848 and is the world's largest, multi-disciplinary scientific and engineering society.

Before coming to AAAS, Dr. Leshner was Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) from 1994-2001. One of the scientific institutes of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, NIDA supports over 85% of the world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction. Read more about Dr. Leshner.

Zoe Fonseca-Kelly, Ph.D., Chair of the NPA Board of Directors, said, "We will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of our meetings, and AAAS was instrumental in the founding of the NPA. We appreciate its support of postdocs, then and now, and we are deeply honored that Dr. Leshner has accepted our invitation to be the Keynote Speaker for our 2012 Annual Meeting."

Read more about the founding of the NPA here.