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Society welcomes £22bn investment in UK science

The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented his Budget to Parliament on 11 March, announcing a landmark £22bn investment in UK science by 2024-25. The Society welcomes this investment as a step change in funding and a significant, long-term commitment to developing the UK as a...

Developing new medicines: what are the hurdles? - April 2012

In this issue, several of our pharmacological ‘Olympians’ address some of these obstacles in more detail.

William Harvey Research Institute 30th Anniversary Meeting

In December 2015 the William Harvey Research Institute (WHRI) at Queen Mary University of London received a major recognition from the British Pharmacological Society: the UK Pharmacology on the Map award was presented to the WHRI for its outstanding contribution to the disco...

A trip to West Africa; Gabon’s indigenous psychedelic

‘A trip to West Africa: Gabon’s indigenous psychedelic’ is the winning article from the 2023 ECP writing competition. Authored by King’s College London student Jade Pullen, the judges enjoyed this topical article, and her mindfulness of the people impacted by its harvesting....

The promise of PROTACs

Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) are heterobifunctional (two-headed) molecules that allow for highly selective targeted protein degradation (TPD). Contrary to traditional small molecule inhibitors (SMIs), PROTACs can degrade disease-causing proteins of interest (POI...

Age is just a number – if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter: Dawn of senotherapeutics

Anitha Nair, a PhD student at William Harvey Research Institute, was selected by a panel of judges as the winner of the second annual   Pharmacology Matters  Writing Competition for Early Career Researchers. Her article was selected for being an informative and well-written ...

An unplanned learning experience

"You are not going to Yobe. I don’t mind you waiting for the next batch." This was my father’s response as I told him over the phone that I had been drafted to Yobe state for my National Service. I like to think myself an obedient son, but as my dad himself must have known, t...

The right time for chronopharmacology: Drugs moving to the rhythm of life

Elizabeth Adeyeye, clinical pharmacology trainee at Barts Health NHS Trust, was a runner up from our 2021 annual writing competition for early career pharmacologists. For each writing competition, we look for exceptionally written and well-communicated science on any pha...

Precision medicine – a magic bullet?

Rosemary Gaw, University of Strathclyde, was a runner up from our 2021 annual writing competition for early career pharmacologists. For each writing competition, we look for exceptionally written and well-communicated science on any pharmacology-related topic. Each of our ent...

Clinical Pharmacology Skills Alliance (CPSA)

            Who are the Clinical Pharmacology Skills Alliance? The Clinical Pharmacology Skills Alliance (CPSA) launched in December 2017 as a partnership between the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) , the British Pharmacological S...