In 2019, the World Journal of Pharmacology (WJP) has published the 1^st issue which containing 1 minireviews. The comprehensive article is “Pharmacology and clinical applications of flupirtine: Current and future options”, a Minireviews by Kim Lawson, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of Biosciences and Chemistry, Biomolecular Sciences Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom, et al. We invite you to peruse this article in this issue, as they present the latest research progress/findings and provide insightful comments in pharmacology that will guide basic research and clinical practice in these fields.

This journal is an open-access journal which allows free immediate access to all full-text articles. For details, please visit: Volume 8, Issue 1, January 15, 2019.

Figure 1 The cover of the issue. Editor-in-Chief of World Journal of Pharmacology, Nam Deuk Kim, PhD, Professor, (E-mail:nadkim@pusan.ac.kr) College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, South Korea.

We encourage pharmacology worldwide to submit manuscripts to the WJP describing their original basic or clinical research findings that are of high academic value and which report new diagnostic techniques or summarize their treatment experiences.