Pharmacology Matters

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…

A joint one-day conference between the British Pharmacological Society and the Royal College of Physicians Ireland was held in Dublin on 29…

Since our last article in Pharmacology Matters, the Early Career Pharmacologists Advisory Group (ECPAG) have been through a number of changes – we…