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Around the world with our members: pharmacology in Egypt

Around the world with our members: pharmacology in Egypt

“You can be anywhere you want in the world, meet different people and learn more than a hundred things in a matter of minutes… all you have to do is READ!” – C.M. Okonkwo  Dear…

Linking the Life Sciences

The Life Sciences Post-Translational Modifications and Cell Signalling meeting, which took place 17-18 March 2019 at the East Midlands Conference Centre…

Migraine Matters: Exciting Development of CGRP-targeted Drugs

What is migraine?  Migraine is a neurological disorder, often described as a moderate to severe throbbing-like headache, associated with increased sensitivity to light or…

Of Fangs and Pharmacology: A Deadly Cure for Heart Disease

The following article by Josh Dignam of the William Harvey Research Institute was selected by a panel of judges as the winner of Pharmacology Matters’ first writing prize for Early Career…

President’s Lecture 2019 ‘Big Pharma – why even the best science might not be enough to save it’

The 2019 President’s Lecture took place at the Royal College of Physicians in central London and was delivered by Dr Nessa Carey, Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, Transitional Chair for…

Researching the history of pharmacology; an antidote to retirement

It is a question that most people approaching retirement ask themselves: ‘what am I going to do after I retire?’, and it was certainly in my mind as I approached my departure from AstraZeneca in…

Rise up against statistical significance (probably)

The PDF version of a recent commentary in Nature (with a list of more than 800 signatories) has the provocative title “Retire statistical significance”…

Targeting ion channels in malignancy

The Hallmarks of Cancer  In January 2000, Hanahan and Weinberg simplified the complex intricacies of cancer into six common traits observed during malignant transformation, termed The…

The Bill Bowman Prize Lecture: How the Brain Talks to Itself

The Bill Bowman Prize Lecture: How the Brain Talks to Itself

On the evening of 19 February 2019, the Glasgow Pharmacological Society (GPS) hosted the British Pharmacological Society’s Bill Bowman…

The Future of Safe Prescribing 

A joint one-day conference between the British Pharmacological Society and the Royal College of Physicians Ireland was held in Dublin on 29 March. This conference was designed to…