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Genetics/Genomics

A pioneering treatment for acute hepatic porphyria – a rare genetic disorder of haem biosynthesis in which toxic molecules build up in the liver -…

Cancer/Oncology

The Society has endorsed a new report from Cancer Research UK, which sets out how healthcare staff can be supported to conduct research. Embedding…

Council

Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed has been appointed by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care as Chair of the Commission on Human Medicines…

Policy statement

The Society welcomes the government’s commitment to developing a People and Culture Strategy as part of delivering the UK R&D roadmap, and is…

Council

We would like to warmly congratulate the following appointments commencing from 1 January 2021:

Council: 

  • Professor Ana Alfirevic, Elected Trustee…

Journals

The Society welcomes the announcement that Wiley, publisher of our journals, has updated its policy regarding author name changes with the aim of…

Report

Today, the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee published its report on “Ageing: Science, Technology and Healthy Living”,…

Press releases

Today, the UK government has accepted the Medicines Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) recommendation to approve Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine…

COVID-19

In his closing address at the annual meeting of the British Pharmacological Society, Government Chief Scientific Advisor, Sir Patrick Vallance…

Prize

We are pleased to announce the 2020 winners of our undergraduate prizes.

Clinical Undergraduate Prize

Medical students, including intercalating…

Blog

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

Reflections from the EPHAR Summer School - July 2026

This summer, I travelled to Ankara to attend the EPHAR (Federation of European…

 

By Kenneth Bitrus David (Kaduna State University, Nigeria)

Kenneth Bitrus David is an educator and researcher with a strong interest in…

Dr Alex Voisey is a Lecturer in Medical Pharmacology at Cardiff University, Chair of the British Pharmacological Society’s Early Career Pharmacologist…

Pharmacology Matters

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

 

 

The launch of a new preclinical training resource: the e-learning module on Sample Sizes and Statistical Power 

The British Pharmacological…

Publishing

About the author

Dr Kirsty Tinto recently completed her PhD in Pharmacology at the University of Strathclyde, funded by the BPS AJ Clark…

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