Pharmacology Matters

Building on the success of our annual Writing Competition for Early Career Researchers, this year, Pharmacology Matters decided to hold its first…

There are approximately 60,000 miles (100,000 km) of blood vessels in our body. The larger vessels branch off into ever smaller segments until they…

This year we held the second annual Images in Pharmacology competition, to visually showcase the importance of pharmacology. 

Take a look at…

Pharmacology Matters editor, Aisah Aubdool, interviews Dr Abhinav Vepa about his studies and research.

Hello Dr Vepa, and welcome to Pharmacologist…

Professional Societies, such as the BPS, are crucial for promoting research in basic and clinical science, driving future scientific direction and…

It’s really important to the members of the Early Career Pharmacologists Advisory Group (ECPAG) that the group is representative of the early career…

Are you coming to the end of your degree, or have you recently graduated and find yourself asking ‘what next?’

It is a complex question, and there…

The Pharmaceutical Science degrees at Kingston University are a popular choice for many students from a BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic)…

Mitochondria are the sites in our cells responsible for making the energy needed to sustain life. They are involved in controlling the function of…

24 July marked 24/7 Samaritans Awareness Day – the Big Listen. Samaritans is a charity that offers help to anyone struggling with their mental health.…

What are haematological malignancies?

Haematological malignancies are cancers that originate in blood-forming tissues such as the bone marrow. They…

Hello Professor Pirmohamed, and welcome to Pharmacologist in Phrame!

What is your background and career pathway to date?

At the age of 12, I was…

COVID-19 has fundamentally changed the worlds of education and work, perhaps forever. Remote working and virtual conferencing will be more common.…

The recent history of pharmacology in Brazil

The medicinal potential of the biodiversity in Brazil was known several centuries before the ‘discovery’…

Anitha Nair, a PhD student at William Harvey Research Institute, was selected by a panel of judges as the winner of the second annual  Pharmacology…

Sitting by a volcanic crater lake in western Uganda in January 2020, we discussed the potential impact of the recently reported but still unnamed…

What a first day

In December 2019, I received the call informing me that I had been successful in my application to join the BPS as its new CEO;…

"You are not going to Yobe. I don’t mind you waiting for the next batch." This was my father’s response as I told him over the phone that I had been…

Sir William DM Paton

Bill Paton, who was knighted in 1979 and was therefore sometimes addressed as Sir William (but never William), was a major…