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Twice a year the British Pharmacological Society awards the Schachter Award to a postgraduate research student. The award provides up to £1,850 to support them to visit another laboratory to learn a new technique that cannot be conducted at their home institute. The award was...

What’s your initial reaction to the title of this article? Are you thinking that phasing out animal experiments is a desirable goal that could eventually be achievable, given the ongoing progress with Non-Animal Technologies (NATs)? Perhaps you believe it’s feasible in some a...

As President of the World Congress of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology 2023 (WCP2023) , I am excited to welcome delegates from across the globe to Glasgow, Scotland on 2-7 July 2023. We have recently opened registration (early-bird deadline 17 March 2023) and completed our firs...

In 2006, in London, six young men almost died in a private clinic after receiving an immunomodulatory drug, TGN1412, which caused severe inflammatory reactions in a first-in-man study. Earlier this month, in France, at least five men were injured (one of whom subsequently died...

Download this guidance as a PDF In this guide, we’ll cover how to make the most of your opportunity to publish content with the British Pharmacological Society (BPS), including: What medium your idea is best suited for Writing tips Using imagery How content is dev...

Can you tell us a bit about the path you took to get to the BPS, and your different roles at the Society? I started my working life as an actor. I did pretty well (I think!) but it’s a tough life even if you’re successful, and I fell out of love with it after a while. I w...

Elected in 2013 Born on 14 June 1924 in Uddingston, UK Died on 22 March 2010 in London, UK Achievements Black discovered two ‘first-in-class’ medicines: the first beta-blocker (propranolol, launched 1964) and the first selective histamine H2 antagonist for the treatment ...

Elected in 2013 Born on 31 March 1900 in Hale, Cheshire, UK Died on 30 June 1965 in Cambridge, UK Achievements Gaddum discovered a previously unknown but vital substance in the brain and intestine (Substance P) and established the role of acetylcholine in nerve transmi...

Elected in 2015 Born on 19 August 1885 in Glastonbury, UK Died on 30 July 1941 in Edinburgh, UK Achievements Clark was the leading UK pharmacologist during the 1930s, whose ideas underpin much of the modern development of pharmacology His enthusiasm for pharmacology ca...

A new plan to tackle the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been announced today by Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock.   Antibiotic resistance poses a substantial threat to modern medicine and is predicted to kill 10 million people ever...