My update will be brief this month, as we have a packed newsletter with everything from job opportunities to competitions, articles, educational resources, and event updates.I would however recommend…
Every summer, when we publish our Annual Review, it is always fascinating to look back at the achievements of the previous 12 months. But often, so much has already taken place in the first half of…
Today, the Society welcomes publication of the updated ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) guidelines, “ARRIVE 2.0”, which aim to improve the reporting of research…
Today, the Health Research Authority (HRA) publishes its new ‘Make It Public’ strategy, setting out an approach to drive transparency and openness in health and social care research. The importance…
The Society’s Education and Training Committee met on 16th June 2020, where we discussed preparations for the academic year 2020-21 as we emerge from the COVID-19 lockdown. This blog summarises that…
"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…
What a first day In December 2019, I received the call informing me that I had been successful in my application to join the BPS as its new CEO; cue huge excitement, anticipation, and lots of…
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…
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…
The recent history of pharmacology in Brazil The medicinal potential of the biodiversity in Brazil was known several centuries before the ‘discovery’ of our land by the Portuguese conquerors. Native…
