Organized by the Drug Safety Research Centres of the Faculty of Medicine, CUHK, University Paris-Est Créteil, the University of Helsinki, the Department of Health, HKSAR, and the Hospital Authority, the ‘2012 Joint Conference of Drug Safety Research Centres’ was held on 21 November. Prof. Hervé Le Louet (3rd right, front row) of the University of Paris-Est Créteil and Prof. Kalle Hoppu (3rd left, front row) of the University of Helsinki were the keynote speakers. With the theme ‘Recognizing and Preventing Adverse Drug Interactions’, the conference attracted over 190 doctors, pharmacists and nurses who came to learn about clinically significant adverse drug interactions, drugs requiring special considerations in disease conditions or at the extremes of age, as well as preventive strategies.