News & Events
News All news from the School
see also Alumni News
21/01/2013
Nucana BioMed have commenced a phase 1 trial of NUC 1031 against pancreatic cancer
Professor Les Baillie speaks to BBC Sunday Politics Wales about antibiotic resistance and his group's work in the Cardiff School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Dr Arwyn Jones leads Cardiff University's involvement in five year, €30M COMPACT project.
15/11/2012
Ross Wardle (current 4th year student) plays for Newport Gwent Dragons in their recent cup match
01/11/2012
for the best overall results in the 2012 National Student Survey
21/09/2012
8th Edition of Hugo & Russell's Pharmaceutical Microbiology highly commended in Pharmacology category
05/09/2012
Professor Les Baillie leads a team including the Queen's University of Belfast, Ercisyes University Turkey, National Center for Disease Control in Georgia, the Defence Science Technology Laboratory in Porton Down and the US Army Medical Research Inst. Fort Detrick, MD
24/07/2012
The 2012 graduation ceremony for the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences took place on a sunny Thursday, 19th July.
19/07/2012
School of Pharmacy student William McCully wins prize for collaborative research in Wales
25/04/2012
Another successful annual Pharmacy Postgraduate Research Day was held in the Redwood Building on Wednesday 18th April.
02/04/2012
Mr Pradeep Nair, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Taylor's University, Prof Salmiah Mohd Ali, Dean @ TUSoP, together with two new staff members, Ms Lyna Irawati, and Mr Selvaraja Seerangam, recently visited Cardiff.
06/03/2012
Professor Baillie's work on the DNA profiles of the nation's honey features on the BBC News.
09/02/2012
New research by Dr Kathryn Taylor of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Cardiff University has identified the switch which releases zinc into cells, with important implications for a number of diseases.
24/01/2012
Dr Maillard presented the 2012 Denver Russell Memorial lecture to the Winter Meeting of the Society for Applied Microbiology on 11th January at the Royal Society in London.
03/01/2012
A new Dean takes up post in Taylor's
09/01/2012
The deal includes rights to two drugs discovered in Cardiff
06/01/2012
Dr Andy Westwell works in conjunction with WEDINOS to analyse unknown components of a number of 'legal highs'.
Events
This one-day conference will cover important issues around patient safety and how working together can improve patient safety through better prescribing. It is open to anyone involved in or interested in the interprofessional education and training of students and practitioners in healthcare education.
Previous events in the School
Wednesday 16th January 2013
Speaker: Professor Tony Bayer Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University
Title: Alzheimer's disease therapeutics - clearing the confusion.
Wednesday 9th January 2013
Speaker: Dr Matthew Fuchter Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
Title: Small molecule epigenetic intervention of disease.
Wednesday, 5th December 2012
Speaker: Professor Geoff Pilkington Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth
Title: Brain tumours: complexity, diversity and challenge.
Wednesday, 28th November 2012
Speaker: Professor Angus Clarke Institute of Medical Genetics, Cardiff University
Title: The Challenge of Rational Treatments in Rett Syndrome.
Special Seminar - Monday, 26th November 2012
Speaker: Professor Katherine Seley-Radtke University of Maryland, Baltimore Co.
Title: Structural Diversity in Nucleoside Drug Design.
Wednesday, 21st November 2012
Speaker: Dr Rob Williams Dept. Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath
Title: Neuroprotective potential of dietary flavonoids in Alzheimer’s Disease.
Wednesday, 14th November 2012
Speaker: Dr Margaret Watson Centre of Academic Primary, Care The University of Aberdeen
Title: Pharmacy Practice Research (PPR): An essential ingredient for evidence-based medicines management, pharmacy practice and policy.
Wednesday, 7th November 2012
Speaker: Professor Cameron Alexander Nottingham University
Title: Polymer Therapeutics and Cells – Signals, Pathways and Responses.
Wednesday, 31st October 2012
Speaker: Dr Alun Hutchings Cardiff Toxicology Laboratories, Llandough.
Title: The Clinical Toxicology Laboratory.
Wednesday, 24th October 2012
Speaker: Dr Ingunn Holen Reader in Bone Oncology, Head of Laboratory Research, Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, Sheffield University
Title: The tumour microenvironment in breast cancer bone metastasis - role in development and response to therapy.
Wednesday, 17th October 2012
Speaker: Dr Vincent Thomas CEA/DSV/I2BM/Neurospin, LNAO, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
Title: Free-living amoebae and their intracellular pathogenic micro-organisms.
Wednesday, 10th October 2012
Speaker: Professor Clive Page Joint Head of IPS, Kings College London
Title: Recent advances in the treatment of asthma and COPD.
Wednesday, 3rd October 2012
Speaker: Dr Chris George (School of Medicine, Cardiff University)
Title: Re-tuning cardiac Ca2+ signalling - adventures in space, time and noise.
