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The British Medical Association (BMA) has called for a national helpline to support patients with addiction problems as part of a new project to…

British Pharmacological Society Fellow Professor Jackie Hunter CBE has been recognised in the ’50 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness 2016’ report. Dr…

Clinical pharmacology

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) recently began providing open access to clinical data for new medicines for human use authorised in the European…

Prize

The British Pharmacological Society is pleased to announce the 2016 winners of the BSc Pharmacology Prize (nominated by their university department)…

The Accelerated Access Review (AAR) was commissioned by the government in November 2014. The final report was published on 24 October 2016. It makes…

Prize

It is with great pleasure that the Society announces Dr James Dear, University of Edinburgh, as the winner of the Grahame-Smith Prize, which…

The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has published a new report on The Changing UK Drug Discovery LandscapeProfessor David Webb,…

Oncology

In a study of 110 women taking the breast cancer drug anastrozole, there were significant differences in patients’ blood levels of the drug that…

Oncology

Researchers have found that a protein called SLC6A14 is overexpressed by several fold in pancreatic tumors taken from patients and in cancerous…

Experts in how drugs work from the British Pharmacological Society have teamed up with Olympic Gold Medallist Tim Foster on a new animation about…

Blog

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Part 2: PGx is the study of how genetic variations influence a person’s response to medicines, being efficacy or safety. The goal of CERSI-PGx, led…

The CERSI-PGx Initiative – A New Chapter for BPS 

What is CERSI-PGx? 

Genomics: Shaping the Future of Healthcare 

The UK’s Ten-Year Health Plan and…

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 Matters

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

Finding My Research Direction: A Young Palestinian Pharmacologist’s Journey to a PhD.

I am originally a refugee from Jerusalem, now living in Jericho…

Emma is a PhD student in cancer pharmacology at Newcastle University. She graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Science from the University of…

🏆 Pharmacomedy Competition 2026 – Results Announcement

We are delighted to share the results of the 2026 Pharmacomedy competition, which ran from…

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