About the journal
Editor-in-Chief: Serge Cremers
Online ISSN: 1365-2125
Print ISSN: 0306-5251
The British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (BJCP) publishes papers and reports on all aspects of drug action in humans, bridging the gap between the medical profession, clinical research and the pharmaceutical industry. The British Pharmacological Society publishes the journal in partnership with Wiley.
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BJCP invites papers ranging from original articles to review articles, meta-analyses, guidelines, commentaries, short reports, editorials and letters to the Editor.
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Editor-in-chief
Professor Serge Cremers (2020 - present)
Professor Serge Cremers was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Pharmacology in August 2019 and assumed the role in January 2020. Professor Cremers is the Director of the Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Laboratory at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center. He is also Co-Director of the Translational Therapeutics Accelerator (TRx) at the university’s Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.
Before becoming Editor-in-Chief, Professor Cremers served as Reviews Senior Editor for the journal for three years.
Professor Cremer aims for the journal to “attract even more high-level original work from academia, regulatory authorities and industry, and to incorporate more new developments into publications such as precision medicine and artificial intelligence.”
History of the journal
The British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology was founded by the British Pharmacological Society in 1974, following discussions within the Society's newly formed Clinical Section in 1970. The journal was first published with Macmillan, before moving to Blackwell (now Wiley) in 1983.
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