News
The latest news from the School.
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2013
14/03/2013
Prize recognises outstanding scientists demonstrating dedication, excellence and future potential in the field of antiviral research.
19/02/2013
School of Pharmacy Breast Cancer Campaign Senior Research Fellow, Dr Julia Gee, attended a Number 10 Downing Street reception hosted by Samantha Cameron, for research charity Breast Cancer Campaign
2012
21/01/2013
Nucana BioMed have commenced a phase 1 trial of NUC 1031 against pancreatic cancer
10/12/2012
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.
10/12/2012
Dr Arwyn Jones leads Cardiff University's involvement in five year, €30M COMPACT project.
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
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'.02/12/2011
Nucana, a Scottish company have announced new funding and a phase 1 trial on NUC 1031 against pancreatic cancer
01/12/2011
New data released by Inhibitex reveal that INX-189 at higher doses in combination with ribavirin continued to show synergistic activity against hepatitis C.
08/11/2011
Inhibitex have just reported that INX-189, first synthesised in this School, produced a more than 10,000 reduction in viral load in patients treated with 200mg daily for 7 days, with very few side effects.17/10/2011
Dr Robin Davies passed away after a short illness on 7th October 2011
10/10/2011
Dr Emma Lane, WSP, co-edits with Prof Stephen Dunnet (School of Biosciences) this new major publication from Springer Protocols
16/09/2011
Andrew Lim, who starts his final year in October, was awarded a Commended Poster Prize in Nottingham (Sept. 2011).
08/08/2011
Pharmacy Postgraduate Students Edward Sayers, Jenny Wymant and Edward Hayes joined up with postdoctoral researcher Jessica Roberts (Dentistry) and acting group Angel Exit Theatre at the Green Man Festival this year to demonstrate some of the science behind wound healing.
08/08/2011
Several exhibits were available at the Science and Technology Pavilion and these were staffed by Cardiff University students including three Welsh School of Pharmacy Undergraduates Malen Gwilym, Eleri Jones and Nia Tomos.
10/08/2010
NSS puts Cardiff first on 'academic support' and equal fourth on 'overall satisfaction'
15/08/2011
The long standing link to WSP continues.
01/08/2011
8 PhD's and one DSc graduate attended the ceremony on 22nd July 2011
22/07/2011
The 2011 graduation ceremony for pharmacy graduates took place on Friday 22nd July.
20/06/2011
Forty years of enthusiasm rewarded
01/06/2011
Third year PhD student, Catherine Golics, presented a key paper at the 14th Congress of the European Society for Dermatology and Psychiatry in Zaragoza, Spain March 17-19th 2011
06/06/2011
A rare honour given to a senior academic in the School of Pharmacy
17/05/2011
The Guardian ranks Cardiff as the third pharmacy school
27/04/2011
Another successful annual Pharmacy Postgraduate Research Day was held in the Redwood Building on Wednesday 20th April.
A novel 'Pro Tide' drug, first synthesised in the Welsh School of Pharmacy less than 3 years ago, has been successfully tested in hepatitis C patients by the U.S. biopharmaceutical company Inhibitex.
Chris McGuigan joins three other representatives from Pharmacy on the panel for Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy
The International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences award for Innovative Investigators
The six scholars present posters at the Entrepreneurship symposium.
27/01/2011
Wales-Ireland industry-academia partnership in smart drug delivery fits government vision and promises improved therapies.
12/01/2011
In recognition of many years collaboration with colleagues in the Welsh School of Pharmacy
14/12/2010
Results announced by Inhibitex for their Phase 2 trial of FV-100, a drug developed by Professor Chris McGuigan at the Welsh School of Pharmacy.
26/10/2010
A Task & Finish Group recently completed a Review of the School’s activities including its current environmental management and compliance with environmental legislation.
20/10/2010
Helen Jarvis and Beth Stevenson, final year students in WSP, completed the Half-Marathon on Sunday 17th October
28/09/2010
The Lecture Theatre is renamed the Vernon Lloyd Lecture Theatre and Professor Stephen Denyer unveils his photograph to hang in the main stairwell.
17/09/2010
Dr Arwyn Jones visited South Africa as part of a collaborative Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation research award to study new methods for targeting the Tuberculosis bacterium in macrophages.
The University confers the title Professor of Drug Delivery on Dr Glyn Taylor
10/08/2010
NSS puts Cardiff equal first on 'overall satisfaction'
The Vice Chancellor has announced that Prof Gary Baxter will become Acting HoS with effect from 1st August 2010.
Drs Mark Gumbleton & Arwyn Jones welcome 182 delegates from 27 countries to the 3rd biennial CDTM symposium
Dai John honoured for 'distinction in the practice & profession of pharmacy'
Monerah Al Soraj, a second year PhD student in WSP, wins the Poster Prize at the 3rd 'Intracellular Delivery of Therapeutics Molecules: From Bench to Bedside' International Conference in Montpelier.
17/09/2007
The latest students to graduate from the Welsh School of Pharmacy 18th July 2007