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Members are at the heart of the Society and in 2024 we were delighted to announce our newest Fellows and Honorary Fellows at our Winter meeting. Our Fellows and Honorary Fellows play an incredibly important role in the Society. Through their work, they further all discipli...

The British Pharmacological Society is pleased to announce that we will be carrying out an exciting new project to redevelop the main BPS website. To ensure that our redesign fulfills the needs and expectations of our members and wider pharmacological community, we invite...

This page explains how to write and submit content for the British Pharmacological Society’s blog and digital magazine, Pharmacology Matters . Whether you regularly write articles, or this is your first time, our team will support you to clearly express your ideas. Please ...

Pharmacologists work across the life cycle of drugs and therapeutics to understand how they work, develop better medicines, and ultimately to make a positive impact on health outcomes. An important consideration is how we deploy research, development, and care to where t...

In 1935 Mary Pickford became the first woman elected to membership of the British Pharmacological Society - just four years after the Society was initially formed. Fast forward 80 years and our membership currently includes around 1,300 female members, representing around 3...

As the British Pharmacological Society’s Ambassador for Ireland, one of my key advocacy and outreach activities is hosting the annual University College Dublin (UCD) Inherited Blindness Summer School. The summer school is targeted at pre-university students who are in their th...

The Finance Committee at the British Pharmacological Society may seem a little mysterious in comparison with those committees more directly relevant to members’ areas of primary interest and expertise. This article will give a bit of an insight into what the Committee is real...

In vivo knowledge and skills have always been essential in academic research labs that investigate basic physiology, ageing, diseases and their pharmacological treatments. Their importance has increased as researchers have sought to understand the functional significance of g...

The impact of history in pharmacology has led to most of our current awards being named after caucasian men. The names of our awards should reflect the diversity of the British Pharmacological Society's membership and the fields of pharmacology and therapeutics as a whole. T...

Imagine yourself as someone in a situation where you are a refugee or in an underprivileged community, your primary and secondary education is unstable, and your university education is but a dream. Your parents are always having financial difficulties and illnesses are not c...