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The winner of the British Pharmacological Society’s 2022 Drug Discovery of the Year award is the team of scientists who discovered and developed…

Honorary fellow

We are delighted to announce our new Fellows and Honorary Fellows for 2021. 26 Fellows and 14 Honorary Fellows have been elected.  

Honorary Fellows…

BPS Assessment

Today (Friday 19 November 2021) the British Pharmacological Society and the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) have jointly…

COVID-19

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today announced its approval of Lagevrio (molnupiravir). This is the first oral…

Clinical pharmacology

The upcoming Spending Review is an opportunity to invest in the expertise that will help the UK to recover, grow and respond to priority health…

Press releases

Today, as part of the Inequalities in Health Alliance (IHA), the Society has signed a joint letter to the Prime Minister calling for a…

Press releases

Today, the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology has published a joint editorial calling for urgent action to tackle the global environmental…


Earlier this year, the Society conducted its latest member survey. The survey had the following aims:

  1. to understand attitudes toward the Society and…
EDI


 

The Society today welcomes publication of the report and recommendations arising from the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Diversity and…

Press releases

The UK government has today published its ten-year strategy for the life sciences. Building on the successes of the COVID-19 response, the…

Blog

Read the opinions, perspectives and insights from our members in the blog. 

Despite 60 years having passed since his death on June 30th, 1965, the work of John Gaddum is no less relevant now than it was then. As a founding…

Pharmacology 2025: Working towards greener conferences

Conferences bring our scientific community together, but they also have an impact on the…

Blink and it will be Pharmacology 2025!

Home to Queen’s University Belfast, this city is a hub for research and education in the pharmaceutical…

Pharmacology Matters

Read the latest articles from Pharmacology Matters, the Society's free digital magazine. 

Alan Daugherty completed a BSc in Pharmacology at Sunderland Polytechnic and received his PhD and DSc in Pharmacology from the University of Bath.…

Now Open: PharmaComedy Competition

Our first-ever PharmaComedy competition is now open – and the deadline is fast approaching!

This is your chance…

Undergraduate Pharmacology writing competition 2025/26

Now open: Undergraduate Pharmacology Writing Competition


Our first undergraduate…

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