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Women’s health is a global priority. The legacy of undervaluing women has resulted in less funding for women’s health research, and thus a data and health gap for women. This symposium explored the urgent need for safe, effective, and accessible medicines in pregnancy, equita...

From left to right: British Pharmacological Society President and CEO, Professor Clive Page and Rachel Lambert-Forsyth, with President's Lecture speaker, Professor Pierangelo Geppetti, at the President's Lecture 2022 at the Royal College of Physicians, London. Over rec...

Elected in 2016 Born on 17 September 1925 in Milnsbridge, UK Died on 24 April 2004 in Edinburgh, UK Achievements Best known for his commitment to receptor theory, Steve's ground breaking paper in 1956, published in the British Journal of Pharmacology, was based on a stu...

The Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA), developed and delivered by the British Pharmacological Society and MSC Assessment, is celebrating its 10th year. The PSA allows all students to demonstrate their competencies in relation to the safe and effective prescribing of medici...

Aidan is a research scientist, lecturer and Deputy Programme Director in BSc Medical Pharmacology at Swansea University What is your career pathway to date (including your education)? I studied BSc Biomedical Sciences (Pharmacology)at the University of Aberdeen, and then co...

Each year the Society awards an annual prize of £1,000 for the best paper published by an early career researcher in an issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology (BJP) during the previous 12 months. The goal of the BJP Early Career Researcher Prize is to recognise outsta...

Every year, there are approximately 1000 new spinal cord injury (SCI) cases . Currently, more than 40,000 people in the UK live with this debilitating condition, which has no cure – a huge financial burden on the NHS . There are three main reasons why the spinal cord ...

British Association for Psychopharmacology BAP has always been committed to education in psychopharmacology research, which necessarily involves the humane use of animals. Supporting training and funding in this area is part of our core remit. We are pleased to endorse this ...

Author’s note: The term 2SLGBTQI+, which is used throughout this blog, stands for Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/ Questioning, Intersex and “+” which signifies inclusion of people who may use additional terminologies. 2S appears at the front of the ...

As lecturers in pharmacology at the University of East Anglia (UEA), we know that teaching the fundamental concepts of receptors, characteristics of receptor families and initiation of cell-signalling pathways is critical for students studying programs such as BSc Pharmacolog...