The School of Pharmacy at Queen’s University, Belfast has announced that its annual open events for applicants and offer holders will take place on 17th and 23rd March. These events will allow applicants to learn more about the school, and courses, as well as the teaching and research, in order to assist students with making their UCAS [...]
Manchester School of Pharmacy offered third year students a unique opportunity to visit Astra Zeneca’s (AZ) Pharmaceutical Development labs at Macclesfield site, and, for the first time, obtain hands-on practical experience working on scientific challenges. The students were given the option to choose their topic of interest for the experiments beforehand to be able to [...]
Professor Brendan Gilmore, of the School of Pharmacy at Queen’s University, joined a panel of international experts from academia and industry to undertake a Wellcome Trust commissioned review on Alternatives to Antibiotics. The review, Alternatives to Antibiotics – A pipeline portfolio review, jointly funded by the Department of Health (England) Policy Research Programme, is published in Lancet [...]
Scientists who enlisted the help of bees to hunt for plant-derived antibacterial drugs have discovered a ‘Welsh Manuka honey’. Cardiff University experts analysed the honey created by bees from 250 Welsh hives to find plants they had visited with high antimicrobial properties. They uncovered a honey in Gwynedd ‘as potent’ as New Zealand’s famed Manuka. [...]
Pharmacy students at Robert Gordon University (RGU) gained a valuable insight in to the science behind their studies at a special event recently. More than 80 students from second and fourth year attended the Science in Practice afternoon session at the Sir Ian Wood Building. Dr Barbara McKenzie, Lecturer in pharmaceutics at RGU, worked with colleagues [...]
A community pharmacist from Austria spent two months at Robert Gordon University (RGU) to gain experience of how pharmacy services are delivered in Scotland. Iris Reinisch spent time with the university’s School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences in September and October to learn more about the development of community pharmacy practice in the North East. [...]
Robert Gordon University (RGU) has joined forces with NHS Highland to establish a new pharmacy academic research centre in Inverness. Lecturers from RGU’s School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences have worked with colleagues in the Highland capital to create the Highland Pharmacy Education and Research Centre (HPERC). Based in the Centre for Health Science in [...]
