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A variety of case studies that illustrates the diversity of roles within pharmacology.

Jonathan Elliott

Jonathan is the Vice Principal for Research and Innnovation and Professor of Veterinary Pharmacology at the Royal Veterinary CollegeWhat is your career pathway to date (including your education)?I studied Veterinary Medicine at Cambridge taking Pharmacology as my part 2 of the Tripos (equivalent to intercalating elsewhere). After qualifying as a vet and undertaking an internship for a year in the USA to consolidate my clinical training I returned to the Department of Pharmacology in...

Laura Ajram

This interview was conducted in 2017, when Laura was a final year PhD student at Kings College London. She went on to progress her career in research management at the University of Manchester as a Translational Research Facilitator. Laura now works at Medicines Discovery Catapult as the Programme Manager for the Psychiatry Consortium, where she combines her knowledge of neuropharmacology and drug discovery with network managementWhat is your career pathway to date (including your...

Malcolm Skingle

Malcolm is Director of Academic Liaison at GSKWhat is your career pathway to date (including your education)?I joined the pharmaceutical industry from school. Academically, I was a late developer and did part time study whilst working in industry. I did an HNC at UH, a BSc in Pharmacology and Biochemistry at UEL and a part time CNAA PhD affiliated to University of London in 45 months.In the first half of my career I was fortunate enough to work in the most successful pharmacology department...

Manasi Nandi

Manasi is a university lecturer and academic researcher at King's College London.What is your career pathway to date (including your education)?BSc (Hons) (undergraduate 3+1 years)– Pharmacology; University College LondonIndustrial studentship (1 year): Glaxo Wellcome, Receptor Pharmacology Unit, working on the characterisation of oxytocin receptor antagonists for the treatment of pre-term labour.PhD (graduate 4 yrs)– Vascular biology and Child Health; Institute of Child...

Mark Christie

Mark is a Senior Lecturer at King's College London, as well as a ConsultantWhat is your career pathway to date (including your education)?I left school with A Levels in physics, chemistry and biology and studied at the Welsh National School of Medicine, before transferring to pharmacology in year three. I graduated with a BSc (Hons) pharmacology in 1985 and stayed in Cardiff to complete my British Heart Foundation sponsored PhD in 1988.My first job was with Fisons, running animal...

Oliver Bell

Oliver is a PhD student at the University of BristolWhat is your career pathway to date (including your education)?At school, I took both GCSEs and A-levels (the A-levels were in Biology, Chemistry, and Geology).For my undergraduate, I studied the BSc Medical Pharmacology at Cardiff University.I am Currently undertaking a PhD (first year) at the University of Bristol in Ocular Immunology.What do you do? What does a typical week look like to you?As a PhD student, my primary job is to undertake...

Patrick Sexton

Professor Patrick Sexton, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS), Australia NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Professor of PharmacologyWhat is your career pathway to date (including your education)?I completed a BSc (Hons), majoring in Pharmacology at Univ. Melbourne prior to completing my PhD in the Depart. Medicine at the Austin Hospital in 1988. I worked for one year before obtaining an independent postdoctoral fellowship from the Australian Research Council at St...

Rachel Forfar

Rachel is a senior scientist in the not-for-profit sector.What is your career pathway to date (including your education)?My love of science began from a young age when I had fun in the kitchen completing messy science experiments from the Usborne Book of Science Experiments! I decided that I was interested in a scientific career so I picked separate sciences at GCSE. I continued this path by studying biology, chemistry and maths for A levels, then chose Biochemistry for my undergraduate...

Reshma Ramracheya

Reshma is a RD Lawrence Research Fellow, group leader and university research lecturer at the University of Oxford.What is your career pathway to date (including your education)?I completed my primary and secondary schooling in the island of Mauritius and left for the UK in 1996. After a four-year BSc degree in Applied Biology at De Montfort University, I embarked on a PhD in physiology at King’s College London in 2000. Shortly after completing my thesis, I joined...

Rob Hill

Rob is a Senior Research Technician/postgraduate at the University of Bristol.What is your career pathway to date (including your education)?I attended the University of Bristol, studying for a Neuroscience BSc. During this time, I obtained a personal license for in vivo experimentation. This short course gave me crucial experience in both the ethics and experimental procedures involved in animal research. However, graduating with a 2:2, I then went on to work at Huntingdon Life Sciences to...



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