Dr Alex Voisey is a Lecturer in Medical Pharmacology at Cardiff University, Chair of the British Pharmacological Society’s Early Career Pharmacologist Advisory Group, and a Fellow of the…
The British Pharmacological Society and the European Laboratory Research & Innovation Group (ELRIG) UK today announced that Dr Ann Hayes has been selected to chair their joint steering…
Dagan Lonsdale is a reader in clinical pharmacology and intensive care medicine at City St George's University of London. He is also the pharmacometrics and pharmacokinetics lead for the university's…
As our annual meeting Pharmacology 2020 approaches, so does the end of my term as VP Meetings. It seems timely to reflect on the challenges we have faced over the last year as well as the many…
Up until the late 70s, pharmacological discovery was a process exemplified by increasing technical expertise in surgery and bioassay, and was associated with a series of important discoveries.…
A new medicine used to treat an ultra-rare inherited disorder which leaves babies without a fully functioning immune system has been named the British Pharmacological Society’s Drug Discovery of the…
The winner of the British Pharmacological Society’s 2022 Drug Discovery of the Year award is the team of scientists who discovered and developed Evrysdi® (risdiplam) – an oral treatment for Spinal…
The number of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals per $1bn spent on drug development halved every 9 years between 1950 and 2010 (Scannell et al., 2012). ‘Eroom’s Law’ was the term chosen to…
Millions of unapproved antibiotics are being sold in India each year, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. The study also revealed that multinational…
