The International College of Neuro-Psychopharmacology PART THREE THE FOUNDING OF THE CINP INTRODUCTION An essential prerequisite of neuropsychopharmacology is dialoguebetween clinicians and basic scientists. The CINP was founded to create a forum for this interaction; it was first proposed at the International Symposium on Psychotropic Drugs organized by the University of Milan in May,. The pioneers who participated in this process are identified below.
SILVIO GARATTINI An Italian pharmacologist in the Department of Pharmacology, University of Milan, who organized the International Symposium on Psychotropic Drugs where the founding of the CINP was proposed.
EMILIO TRABUCCHII CINP Founder } Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacology, Universityof Milan, who chaired the International Symposium on Psychotropic Drugs where the founding of the CINP was proposed. He was chairman of the organizing committee for the First CINP Congress in Rome, 1958.
WOLFGANG De BOOR Secretary CINP, 1960-1962 A German psychiatrist, author of a 1956 monograph on Psychopharmacology and Psychopathology, who at the Milan Symposium, proposed the founding of an international society that became the CINP.
CORNEILLE RADOUCO-THOMAS CINP Founder and Secretary, -1960 Rumanian born pharmacologist, working in Geneva, who also, independently, proposed an international society and suggested the name, Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum, (CINP).
ERNST ROTHLIN CINP Founder and President, -1960 Swiss physician and pharmacologist, Director of Sandoz, who was the first President of the CINP, elected at the founding of the organization on September 2, in Zurich.
JEAN DELAY CINP Founding Vice President, -1958 and President, 1964-1966 French psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Paris.
PAUL H. HOCH CINP Founding Vice President, -1958 and President, 1960-1962 } Hungarian born, American psychiatrist, Commissioner of Mental Health, New York State.
THE HISTORY OF THE CINP HANS HOFF CINP Founding Vice President, -1958 and President, 1962-1964 Austrian psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Vienna.
MICHAEL D. SHEPHERD CINP Founding Vice President, -1958 British psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, University of London.
HERMAN C. DENBER CINP Founder and Secretary, -1960 American Psychiatrist, Director of Research at Manhattan State Hospital, New York.
WERNER A. STOLL CINP Founder and Treasurer, -1960 Swiss psychiatrist, assistant to Manfred Bleuler at the Burgholzli Psychiatric Clinic in Zurich.
PHILIP B. BRADLEY CINP Founder, First Councillor, 1962 and Treasurer, 1964 1972 English neuropharmacologist, Acting Head, Department of Experimental Psychiatry, University of Birmingham.
PIERRE DENIKER Founder, First Councillor 1964, Secretary 1964 1970 and President 1974-1976 French psychiatrist, assistant to Jean Delay, St.Anne s Hospital, Paris.
COMMENTARY With the first psychotropic drugs in clinical use, basic methodology in neuropharmacology established and the CINP inaugurated, the prerequisites for the evolution of neuropsychopharmacology were in place.
CINP would like to thank Dr Tom Ban and Dr Barry Blackwell for creating this informative set of slides. We hope you have enjoyed this brief overview. For more information on the history of CINP please go to www.cinp.org Acknowledgment: We would like to thank Mrs Gill Moore, CINP Executive Secretary, for transforming this photo history into a power point presentation.