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Society President appointed new Chair of the Commission on Human Medicines

Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed has been appointed by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care as Chair of the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM). The CHM provides independent expert advice to ministers on the safety, quality and efficacy of medicines. It is a...

Council

The Society's Council is comprised of Trustees who have ultimate responsibility for all aspects of the British Pharmacological Society’s activities, including management, with the exception of those matters which must be decided by a general meeting of the members. The Tru...

Society membership

The British Pharmacological Society (BPS) is a friendly and collaborative community of professionals and students across the world, all working and studying in pharmacology or its related fields. Members include academics, clinicians, industry professionals and policy makers....

Committee overview

Council has overall responsibility for everything that the British Pharmacological Society does, giving strategic direction, and determining and safeguarding the mission and vision. It ensures the Society is compliant with its own Articles of Association , Rules , relevan...

About BPS education

Education is at the heart of everything we do at the British Pharmacological Society. We have committed to “explaining the importance of pharmacology in the modern world by extending the Society's education and outreach activities” as a key strategic priority. As the primary ...

Your Society: Looking ahead to Pharmacology 2022

With September fast approaching, all of us at the Society are working hard to put plans in motion for our annual conference, Pharmacology 2022 , which will take place in Liverpool on 13-14 September.   We couldn’t be more pleased to be hosting this event in person again f...

'Next generation' precision medicine for cystic fibrosis wins prestigeous drug discovery award

A new medicine to treat cystic fibrosis has received Drug Discovery of the Year 2017, a prestigious award from the British Pharmacological Society. A combination of two drugs (lumacaftor and ivacaftor) offers a significant step forward for the treatment of this life-limiting,...

The Bill Bowman Prize Lecture: How the Brain Talks to Itself

On the evening of 19 February 2019, the Glasgow Pharmacological Society (GPS) hosted the British Pharmacological Society’s Bill Bowman Prize Lecture , awarded to Dr Caroline Copeland of St George’s, University of London. Caroline’s lecture, entitled “How the Brain Talks to It...

Forty years of the Clinical Pharmacology Colloquium (1981-2021)

The Clinical Pharmacology Colloquium first met in Dyffryn, St. Nicholas, South Wales in November 1981. At that time, it was known as the South-West Clinical Pharmacology Group and was intended as a forum for clinical pharmacologists in academic centres in the south-west of En...

Education resources

BPS Assessment Ltd The Society's subsidiary medical e-learning and online assessment company is making content available for free during this time: 27 e-learning sessions in prescribing 15 clinical case scenarios Approximately 12 hours of distance-based learning Al...