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A new medicine to treat cystic fibrosis has received Drug Discovery of the Year 2017, a prestigious award from the British Pharmacological Society. A…

In a review of published studies addressing patients’ perceptions and factors influencing their reporting of adverse drug reactions, most patients…

The British Pharmacological Society today announced that its 3,500+ members from around the world voted to induct five influential pharmacologists…

TrialsTracker, a new website run by academics at the University of Oxford, shows that many organisations in industry and academia who have registered…

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…

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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…

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

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Much of the research carried out by pharmacology students, including undergraduate dissertations, goes unnoticed by the wider student network. We…

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…

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…

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Dr Maheen Wahid is a medical doctor and final year PhD researcher at the University of Strathclyde. 

She completed an MBBS and MPhil in Pharmacology in…

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