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Throughout history, natural drug resources in Mexico have been used to treat several diseases, thanks to the country’s ample flora and fauna. Mexico is in fourth place among the 17 countries considered ‘megadiverse’ as it has almost 70% of the world's species diversity, the...

The Vacation Studentship encourages undergraduates to take pharmacology as a specialism. Winners receive up to £1,850 for up to ten weeks to help cover living costs during a summer research project, which they have devised with their supervisor. Nine studentships were awar...

The recent rebranding of Facebook to Meta signalled the company’s focus on investment in the Metaverse (or Omniverse if you are following NVIDIA’s developments). Whatever the name, the ‘verse had a global market size of $38.8bn in 2021 and is expected to grow to $678bn by 203...

Last year marked the 50 th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a major turning point in the fight for LGBT+ Equality 1 . With the assimilation of LGBT+ culture into mainstream media (looking at you RuPaul!) and a generation of LGBT+ people growing up without knowing th...

24 July marked 24/7 Samaritans Awareness Day – the Big Listen. Samaritans is a charity that offers help to anyone struggling with their mental health. Mental health problems persist, often quietly, among students and academics, and this is a topic that has been featured in th...

For nearly two decades, I’ve been an active, full member of the British Pharmacology Society (BPS) and regularly attend the BPS annual meeting. As a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, I take pride in helping select our final-year student for the Undergraduate BPS Pharmac...

Daniel Saffer is the winner of the 2024 ECP Writing Prize. Judges enjoyed his insight on osteoarthritis, and the future of treatment for this common condition. Everyone knows somebody that has osteoarthritis (OA), whether of the hip, the knee, the digits, or the spine....

While many researchers are fighting the good fight in the lab, it seems we are losing a war with our own health. A recent publication from Nature determined that graduate students are six times more likely to experience periods of depression and anxiety compared to the gen...

PhD programs have always been tough. In my postgraduate days, ‘second-year blues’ was rampant: the process seemed to have taken an age already, but there was still such a long haul ahead. What seems to have changed is that too many students now perceive the stress as intolera...

I was fortunate enough to be chosen as a recipient of the Schachter Award by the British Pharmacological Society in March 2019. This award is designed to enable postgraduate members of the society to visit a laboratory to learn a new technique not available to them at ...