Dates for your diary in 2025

We hope your 2025 has got off to a fantastic start! To help you plan for the year ahead, we've put together some key dates for your diary, including in-person and online events, award and grant applications deadlines, and Prescribing Safety Assessment exam dates.

January

• Toxicology in a new era of medicine (16 Jan) - Online conference
• Prescribing Safety Assessment exam date (30 Jan) (Medical Schools only)
• Application deadlines:
  • Ambassador Scheme (25 Jan)
  • Schachter Award (31 Jan)

February

• Pharmacology 2025 - deadline for submitting symposia & workshop proposals (11 Feb)

March

• BPS Live: Precision Prevention - UKPGx free webinar (5 Mar)
• Prescribing Safety Assessment exam date (20 Mar)
• Application deadlines for:
  • BPS Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Prize (31 Mar)
  • Bülbring Award (31 Mar)
  • Dunlop Prize (31 Mar)
  • Geoffrey Burnstock Prize (31 Mar)
  • Pickford Award (31 Mar)
  • Public Engagement Award (31 Mar)
  • Rang Prize (31 Mar)
  • Sir Henry Wellcome Gold Medal (31 Mar)
  • Vacation Studentship (31 Mar)
  • Vane Medal (31 Mar)
  • Vogt Prize (31 Mar)

April

• New therapeutic modalities: Transforming receptor pharmacology (2 - 3 Apr) - Cambridge event
• Pharmacology 2025 - abstract submissions open!
• Application deadline for:
  • Engagement grant (winter call) (date TBC)

May

• Cambridge Ion Channel Forum (15 May) - Cambridge event
• Prescribing Safety Assessment exam date (1 May)

June

• UK Pharmacogenomics & Stratified Medicine Network 2025 Annual Meeting (UKPGx2025) (18 Jun) - London event
• Educator Networking Meeting (Date & location TBC)
• Prescribing Safety Assessment exam date (5 Jun) (Medical Schools)

July

• Engagement webinar (date TBC)

September

• Pharmacology 2025 - astract submissions close!
• Prescribing Safety Assessment exam date (9 Sep) (Foundation Schools)
• Engagement webinar (date TBC)
• Application deadline for:
  • Education grant (date TBC)

October

• FIGON & BPS Dutch Medicine Days (8 - 9 Oct) - Leiden event
• Application deadline for:
  • Engagement grant (summer call) (date TBC)

November

• Application deadline for:
  • Student Choice Award for Excellence in Pharmacology Teaching

December

• Pharmacology 2025 (BPS Annual Meeting) (16 - 18 Dec) - Belfast event

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We look forward to seeing you and supporting your career journey throughout 2025!

In the meantime:

• See our full events calendar
• See our full list of awards, prizes and grants
• Find out the benefits of publishing in our journals
• Become a member
• Find out more about the Prescribing Safety Assessment and BPS Assessment.
• Discover more ways to get involved