The next CoAPCR Quarterly Membership Meeting will take place on Thursday, June 11, 2026, at 12:00 PM EST. Your insights and engagement are greatly valued so we hope you can join us.
The agenda, registration information, and Zoom link are posted to the Events page: CoAPCR Quarterly Meeting (June 11, 2026).
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The Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) recently published this blog, which may be of interest to CoAPCR members and others in the clinical research community. The blog explores efforts to raise awareness of clinical research careers and strengthen the workforce pipeline. It features updates from leaders involved in ACRP's Partners Advancing the Clinical Research Workforce (PACRW) that were shared at the recent ACRP 2026 conference in Orlando. The blog also addresses current challenges and collaborative strategies to build a more diverse, research-ready workforce. We encourage you to review this timely and important blog.
North Carolina will celebrate Life Sciences Week with a series of statewide events from September 15th to 16th, 2025. Sponsored by the NCBiotech Center, the CoAPCR 2025 Annual Meeting is one of the featured events for the week.
CoAPCR is excited to announce that Cherié Butts, PhD will be the Keynote Speaker at the 2025 Annual Meeting. Dr. Butts is the Senior Medical Director (West Coast) at Biogen. Since joining Biogen in 2012 she has held numerous roles including being the clinical lead for Plegridy IM (peginterferon beta-1a, now approved for multiple sclerosis in the US and EU). Prior to Biogen, she conducted research on neuroendocrine regulation of immune responses and served as a FDA reviewer for new drug applications. She earned degrees from The Johns Hopkins University (BA, MS) and UT MD Anderson Cancer Center (PhD) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Butts is passionate about highlighting the interconnectedness of biomedical research across academia, government, and industry. CoAPCR is honored to have her speak to CoAPCR members on Tuesday, September 16th, 2025.
The Consortium of Academic Programs in Clinical Research (CoAPCR) is a non-profit global, professional organization that represents the academic programs that are producing the next generation of clinical research professionals. An information session on COAPCR and its benefits to academic programs in the field of clinical research was held on February 20, 2025.
To view the presentation and video, use this link.
More details on joining CoAPCR are available on our Membership page.
CoAPCR is excited to hold the 2024 Annual Meeting from Monday, November 11th to Tuesday, November 12th, 2024 at the Conference Center @ NCBiotech in Durham, North Carolina. The meeting will be in-person with webconference options for virtual attendees. The meeting is open to individuals from member organizations.
Registration is open for the meeting. Also, we are accepting submissions of meeting activities and poster presentations.
For more information please visit the 2024 Annual Meeting Information page. The Information page includes a preliminary agenda and details on lodging, transportation, etc. If you are interested in helping with the meeting, please contact the Organizing Committee.
Upon the recommendation of the Committee on Accreditation of Academic Programs in Clinical Research (CAAPCR), the Certificate and Master's programs in Applied Clinical Research at St. Cloud State University have been formally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP). St. Cloud State University is the fourth academic institution with a program in the area of clinical research to receive formal accreditation. As the profession of clinical research continues to mature, formal academic program accreditation is becoming the criterion for quality in the preparation of tomorrow’s workforce.
The Certificate and Master's programs in Applied Clinical Research at St. Cloud University are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (http://www.caahep.org) upon the recommendation of the Committee on Accreditation of Academic Programs in Clinical Research (CAAPCR).
McMaster University Continuing Education (MCE) is congratulating Munaza Jamil for being appointed to the Executive Board of the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) Canada. According to the below press release in June 2024 from MCE Program Director, Kathleen Geelen:
Munaza also chairs the N2 Public Engagement Committee, where she champions many EDI initiatives. In May Munaza spoke at the Annual Conference for ACRP: Enhancing Diversity in Clinical Trials: Canada's Promise - ACRP (acrpnet.org). She is also an active collaborator and mentor with IMPaCT trials, a CIHR-funded Clinical Trials Training Platform and sits on the Joint Task Force for Clinical Trials Competency at the MRCT Center at Harvard, which has defined the core competency framework for clinical research professionals globally.
Munaza has been instructing in the Applied Clinical Research (ACR) Program since 2018, she thoroughly enjoys teaching, and strives to create a culture of learning within the virtual classroom. Her students are encouraged to take risks in the discussion, feel confident starting conversations, and drive their own learning. With our instructional designer, Munaza has also provided subject matter expertise in many of the courses in the ACR program. She is also an active member representing McMaster with the Consortium of Academic Programs in Clinical Research (CoAPCR).
We are thrilled that she has been selected by ACRP as an executive board member and wish her continued success in her career.
ACRP authored a blog on March 4, 2024 about Enhancing Diversity in Clinical Trials: Canada's Promise. Munaza Jamil is a faculty instructor at McMaster University Continuing Education, a COAPCR institutional member.
