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Today, the British Pharmacological Society and the Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists publish a joint…

EDI

The Society includes a diversity of people from all backgrounds for whom we will provide an environment that supports their endeavours, celebrates…

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Animal models used in the global effort to find a treatment for COVID-19 must be valid – and they must be used and reported consistently. Society…

Report

The ambitions to conduct more clinical research in the UK could be achieved by strategic investment in the clinical research workforce, according to…

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Today, the Society has joined partner organisations in the UK research and innovation sector in calling for competitively costed visas for…

Report

The government has published its COVID-19 recovery strategy, ‘Our plan to rebuild’, setting out a series of phases as part of this plan. Phase three…

COVID-19

A new review, published in the British Journal of Pharmacology, from a team of researchers representing the International Union of Basic and Clinical…

Press releases

Medicines have been prominent in discussions about the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an urgent need to develop effective treatments to lower risks of…

Report

The Society has responded to the announcement that Gilead Sciences will initiate two phase 3 randomised studies to evaluate the safety and antiviral…

The British Pharmacological Society has responded to concerns that the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen, could…

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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