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Welcome

Welcome to the Cardiff School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.


The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is one of twenty six UK schools of pharmacy and the only one in Wales.


Welcome from the Head of School

 

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Students working in a Pharmacy.

Undergraduate Programme

The Masters in Pharmacy is consistently ranked as one of the best in the U.K. and is fully approved.


Pharmacy PG Seminar

Postgraduate programmes 

Supervised research study leading to Doctoral degrees , as well as a range of taught postgraduate courses.


PhD students Monerah Al Soraj and Catherine Watkins together with ATJ analysing drug delivery systems in leukaemia cells using the new confocal microscopy facility at WSOP.

Research

Research in the Cardiff School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has been organised around four research disciplines. 

Highlight Publications

siRNA and pharmacological inhibition of endocytic pathways to characterize the differential role of macropinocytosis and the actin cytoskeleton on cellular uptake of dextran and cationic cell penetrating peptides octaarginine (R8) and HIV-Tat.

Al Soraj, M, Peynshaert, K., He, L, Cousaert, J., Vercauteren, D., Braeckmans, K., De Smedt, S.C. and Jones, A.T.

Journal of Controlled Release (2012), 161(1), p132-141.

Contribution of spores to the ability of Clostridium difficile to adhere to surfaces.

Joshi LT, Phillips DS, Williams CF, Alyousef A, and Baillie L

Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2012), 78(21), p7671–7679.

Dose-dependent change in biomarkers during neoadjuvant endocrine therapy with fulvestrant: results from NEWEST, a randomized Phase II study.

Kuter I, Gee JM, Hegg R, Singer CF, Badwe RA, Lowe ES, Emeribe UA, Anderson E, Sapunar F, Finlay P, Nicholson RI, Bines J, Harbeck N.

Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2012 Jan 28. [Epub ahead of print]

Protein Kinase CK2 Triggers Cytosolic Zinc Signaling Pathways by Phosphorylation of Zinc Channel ZIP7.

Taylor, K.M., Hiscox, S., Nicholson, R.I., Hogstrand, C., Kille, P.

Science Signalling DOI:10.1126/scisignal.2002585 (2011).

Co-operative membrane disruption between cell penetrating peptide and cargo - implications for the therapeutic use of the Bcl-2 converter peptide D-NuBCP-9-r8.

Watkins, C.L., Sayers, E.J., Allender, C., Barrow, D., Fegan, C., Brennan, P., Jones, A.T. 

Molecular Therapy DOI:10.1038/mt.2011.175 (2011).

Wales Centre for Pharmacy Professional Education
Script Magazine

The magazine of the Cardiff School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences