Looking ahead to Pharmacology 2024

The BPS’ annual meeting, Pharmacology 2024, is just a few months away! Three days of cutting-edge science and networking await in Harrogate, Yorkshire, 10-12 December 2024. The BPS is ‘back to normal’, live and in-person. It’s showtime! I encourage you to join the finest minds pharmacology has to offer from the UK and beyond - and go Christmas shopping too.



The Harrogate Convention Centre will be the home of Pharmacology 2024, and it is the ideal venue for the occasion!

Networking, science and celebration

We have worked hard to pull together an exciting programme, with a strong focus on new therapeutic frontiers, ECR education and involvement, and engagement with Industry. Here’s a taste of just some of the things you’ll discover at Pharmacology 2024:

• Sir James Black Drug Discovery of the Year: Hear about the 2024 winner, Bristol Myers Squibb, and their cardiovascular drug mavacamten.
• Rise of the Machines: explore rational drug design through AI.
• RNAs, Cells & Genes - Oh My! New Paradigms in Pharmacology?: BJP Editor-in-Chief, Prof Péter Ferdinandy will chair an exciting session, which explores new therapeutic horizons beyond frontiers we thought had been conquered.
• Bootcamps: Creating global change makers with bootcamps about careers, publications and wellbeing.
• ECR Oral and Poster Prizes: An opportunity to celebrate the next generation of pharmacologists!

Networking is priceless, and our prize lectures and exhibitors give you opportunities to engage with new research tools and frontiers. Whether you’re an ECR looking for mentorship and collaboration, a senior researcher catching up with old friends and new movers in your field, a clinical pharmacologist keen to learn about new and emerging therapeutic modalities or you’re looking to collaborate with Industry, this is the conference for you!

Visiting Harrogate, Yorkshire

 This year, we decided to host the meeting in Harrogate, Yorkshire. Harrogate is a first for the BPS, and a grand choice it is for you too. Harrogate Conference Centre provides a fantastic forum to meet, and at the end of each day you’ll discover a beautiful spa town with incredible architecture, bars, pubs, cafés and restaurants. Of course, we’ll be approaching the festive season by then, and Harrogate hosts an annual Christmas Market and Funfair. Looking to extend your stay? This is the ideal place to bring family, with the Yorkshire Dales, Leeds and York at your doorstep.
 
For a night of fun, you have the famous (some would say infamous) Blues Bar providing live music and Yorkshire tapas every night, and the Fat Badger to name just two. For a finer dinner I’d particularly recommend William and Victoria and the Royal Baths Chinese restaurants, but you’ll need to book well in advance even for lunch!

But nothing will prepare you for the splendour of the Conference Dinner at the Royal Hall, where you will enjoy a meal with delegates and celebrate another year of excellent work by our pharmacology community.

Register today

No doubt this meeting will sit well along other BPS annual meetings and our longstanding tradition of blending cutting edge science networking and fun. It is an unmissable opportunity for our members and colleagues.

December will come around before you know it – so make sure you register today to take advantage of:

• Early bird discounts
• BPS members and undergraduate discounts
• Bursaries available to support those who may need them.

We cannot wait to see you there!

If you have any questions, please contact: meetings@bps.ac.uk.

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