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Autumn has arrived and activity is ramping up at the Society in preparation for our annual meeting, Pharmacology 2019. I am delighted to report that…

CEO Jono Bruun gives an update on our project to improve the way we engage across the Society.

I have two updates for you in today’s blog, covering two different areas of the Society’s diverse work.
 

President’s Lecture

The British summer…

I was fortunate enough to be chosen as a recipient of the Schachter Award by the
British Pharmacological Society in March 2019. This award is designed…

Robert Laprairie was selected as the British Pharmacological Society and Australasian Society for Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and…

We are getting started on an important project to improve our Affinity Groups, and I’d like talk to you about why we’re making changes.

Research and education really are at the heart of the Society’s work and they underpin everything we do. We know that joining with academic…

Each year the British Pharmacological Society, the Physiological Society and the Biochemical Society come together to support Early Career Researchers…

The Society held the most well-attended conference to date with Pharmacology 2018, and arguably the most exciting. A range of national and…

Clare Parish talks about how winning the Bülbring Award helped her get back on track after a career break.

In my first message to you as your President this time last year, I said that one of my priorities for 2018 was that our annual meeting would be our…

The idea that mental health issues are increasingly common amongst university students compared to the general public has gained traction in recent…

Work experience for school pupils is no longer mandatory but in many schools it is highly encouraged. Whilst shadowing an individual researcher can be…

The Social Mobility Foundation (SMF) is a charity which aims to make a practical improvement in social mobility for young people from low-income…

Perception

There is something of a public perception that ‘scientist’ is more a description of someone’s life than a job title. A scientist is…

Chronic pain is a serious and growing worldwide problem, and the burden it places on our society is increasing.

To manage the symptoms associated with…

By the time you read this you will hopefully have already seen the Society’s announcement of its new Scientific Advisory Panel. I’d like to talk about…

“Why is it always Reviewer 3?”

We have all said it when we’ve felt we’ve been the victim of a poor, unfair or even ill-informed peer review. You know…

Our prize lectures always form the spine of the scientific programme of our annual meeting, and that’s no different for Pharmacology 2018.

These…

Randomised clinical trials are by far the best tool we have to assess whether a medicine works or not. Governments and regulators demand to see the…

The idea of a magic bullet is very compelling and attractive. Curing diseases with the precise delivery of therapeutics to the target cell or…