The magic of BPS meetings

Published: 13 Feb 2025
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By Dr Paul Miller



We welcome you to join us for a BPS focused meeting on 2 and 3 April, 2025, on new therapeutic modalities that are transforming receptor pharmacology.
 
We have gathered together world-leading research stories from speakers in the UK, Europe and the US who will present their latest advances in pharmacological research on GPCRs, protein degraders and ion channels. We will also have speakers from both academia and industry presenting on both sides of the coin on what is driving discovery and translational breakthroughs.
 
So, what will you gain from attending a BPS focused meeting?
 
Well, firstly, with around 150 attendees expected, there’s no doubt that a focused meeting guarantees the opportunity to get up close and personal with our outstanding line-up of speakers so you can scour their brains for their thoughts on the latest pharmacology breakthroughs in the field. No need to wade through the masses for a brief glimpse of a pharmacology hero!
 
It is is also a tremendous opportunity for anyone interested to give an oral communication on your latest work by applying to present in one of the generous number of speaker slots up for grabs. Whether you’re an early career researcher such as a graduate student, postdoc, or new principal investigator (or a “battle-hardened” pro!), you have the chance to present your research to a specialised, relevant and attentive crowd. Sharing research through oral communications is a great way to get noticed and to network because you know that experts specialising in the same area are listening and now you will be on their radar to receive advice, collaborate, or maybe even get a job offer!
 
Furthermore, a focused meeting of specialists who share common ground and can give each other valuable advice with a genuine vested interest in learning from each other, provides a strong platform for networking and making important contacts for the future. So come along and be part of this process in an engaged community. Share your research and learn from each other. Sharing is caring!
 
Finally, this event is being held in Cambridge, a beautiful city and popular tourist attraction, home to college splendour, its labyrinthine streets buzzing with energy and ideas and overflowing with good restaurants and pubs. The event itself is being hosted in one of Cambridge’s oldest and most magnificent colleges, St John’s. A historic oasis in the heart of the city. It’s not every day you can say you made new friends and chatted about cutting edge science on the same hallowed ground that William Wordsworth, Douglas Adams, and Fredirick Sanger used to roam!

We look forward to seeing you.
 

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Paul did his PhD and a postdoc with Professor Trevor G Smart at University College London, where he applied electrophysiological and pharmacological approaches to link structure and function for, principally, glycine receptors. Subsequently, from 2010, Paul attained a Wellcome Trust OXION postdoctoral fellowship, in the Division of Structural Biology at University of Oxford, where he established methodologies for the production of membrane proteins within the department. Paul used these techniques to solve structures of GABAARs and for the production of antibodies with novel pharmacology and high selectivity. He joined the Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge as a lecturer in 2018 to advance antibody pharmacology of ion channels, and has received funding from AMS, BBSRC, Wellcome, Rosetrees Trust, and a range of industry support.

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