Bad to the bone: My PhD journey studying IKKα in bone cancer

Can you tell us a bit about the path you took to get to the BPS, and your different roles at the Society?

I started my working life as an actor. I…

There is a pervasive idea of a ‘gender gap’ in hypertension and cardiovascular disease, with the general perception being that women are less likely…

As the British Pharmacological Society’s Ambassador for Ireland, one of my key advocacy and outreach activities is hosting the annual University…

What is your background and career pathway to date?

I was born and raised in North East London – all right, Essex – where my education began at…

For the first time in 20 years, the Physiological Society’s annual meeting returned to Aberdeen, and the ‘granite city’ provided an excellent venue…

The first meeting of The Platelet Society took place at Jesus College, Cambridge on 12–13 September 2019. When I agreed to host the meeting, I was…

The Policy and Public Engagement Committee is pleased to welcome five new Ambassadors who will be sharing their enthusiasm for pharmacology and…

Creating your networks 

You may be aware that we have been reviewing the effectiveness of our Affinity Groups and how we can better support valuable…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an astonishingly rapidly growing technology and is already ‘changing the game’ in many fields. Together with Big…

The following article by J. Daniel Lafreniere, Research Associate at Dalhousie University, Canada, has been selected by a panel of judges as the…

The Life Sciences Post-Translational Modifications and Cell Signalling meeting, which took place 17-18 March 2019 at the East Midlands Conference…

What is migraine? 

Migraine is a neurological disorder, often described as a moderate to severe throbbing-like headache, associated with increased…

The following article by Josh Dignam of the William Harvey Research Institute was selected by a panel of judges as the winner of Pharmacology Matters’…

The 2019 President’s Lecture took place at the Royal College of Physicians in central London and was delivered by Dr Nessa Carey, Visiting Professor…

It is a question that most people approaching retirement ask themselves: ‘what am I going to do after I retire?’, and it was certainly in my mind as I…

The PDF version of a recent commentary in Nature (with a list of more than 800 signatories) has the provocative title…

The Hallmarks of Cancer 

In January 2000, Hanahan and Weinberg simplified the complex intricacies of cancer into six common traits observed during…

On the evening of 19 February 2019, the Glasgow Pharmacological Society (GPS) hosted the British Pharmacological Society’s Bill Bowman…