Search for

--This blog also appears on the partner ELRIG UK’s website-- It’s difficult to summarize Graham Russell’s contribution to medicine with brevity. The development of bisphosphonates for the treatment of bone disorders has led to life-changing benefits for millions of ...

Earlier this year, the Society conducted its latest member survey. The survey had the following aims: to understand attitudes toward the Society and member benefits to inform and improve the services provided to understand the impacts the COVID-19 pandemic has had on ...

Vice Presidents are elected by members of the Society to chair four of the Society's committees and direct and guide the remit of these committees. Vice Presidents are elected for a three year term following one year in a deputy 'elect' Vice President position. Engagement ...

The joint seminar and workshop from the British Pharmacological Society, Laboratory Animal Science Association (LASA) and Psychiatry Consortium was held on the 24 th and 25 th of February 2021, with the theme ‘Exploring the status of animal models of psychiatric disord...

The PDF version of a recent  commentary  in Nature (with a list of more than 800 signatories) has the provocative title “Retire statistical significance” and has been widely interpreted as a call for scientists to “rise up” against the concept of statistical significance. Clo...

The following article by J. Daniel Lafreniere, Research Associate at Dalhousie University, Canada, has been selected by a panel of judges as the runner up for Pharmacology Matters’ first writing prize for Early Career Researchers. Entrants were tasked with writing entertainin...

A hobby is a poor word to describe a passion that has accompanied science all my life, and morphed from athletics to bike- and car-racing, with 60 years of competition, and 116,000 kms run (to date – I am not finished yet!). Like all good passions, it is rooted in some deep f...

Sitting by a volcanic crater lake in western Uganda in January 2020, we discussed the potential impact of the recently reported but still unnamed coronavirus, but had no idea of how much change was coming. Dr Catriona Waitt and Dr Peter Waitt 5 years ago, we moved to...

This article, written by Owen Underwood from the University of Nottingham, was a runner up for our Pharmacology Matters Writing Competition for early career pharmacologists in 2020.    Opioid-related deaths have hit the US and Europe like a tidal wave. According to the US...

This article, written by Sabah Bharde, was a runner up for our Pharmacology Matters Writing Competition for early career pharmacologists in 2020. The perception of pain is universal, with 6–7% of the global population suffering from debilitating, intense pain on a regul...