Welcome
Welcome to the Welsh School of Pharmacy.
The Welsh School of Pharmacy is one of twenty six UK schools of pharmacy and the only one in Wales. For nearly a century, the School has cultivated a strong tradition of innovative pharmaceutical education, scientific research and service to the pharmacy profession, especially in Wales.
Location
The school is located in the Redwood Building named after Theophilus Redwood the first Professor of Pharmacy in Britain.
Undergraduate
We offer one undergraduate degree programme, the Masters in Pharmacy (MPharm), which is fully approved by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain as a recognised route of entry in the profession of pharmacy.
Prospective Undergraduate Students information
Current Students
Postgraduate
We offer a range of taught postgraduate courses, as well as opportunities for supervised research study leading to Master or Doctoral degrees.
Postgraduate Research study
Postgraduate Research Studentships Available
Welsh Centre for Pharmacy Professional Education
Research
Research in the Welsh School of Pharmacy in Cardiff has been organised around five research groups
Highlight Publications
Chew E-H, Nagle AA, Zhang Y, Scarmagnani S, Palaniappan P, Bradshaw TD, Holmgren A, Westwell AD
Free Rad. Biol. Med. (2010), 48, 98-111.
The discovery of natural product-derived antitumour cinnamaldehydes with either chemopreventative or chemotherapeutic properties dependent on dose.
Rebecca J. Ingram, Gökhan Metan, Bernard Maillere, Mehmet Doganay, Yusuf Ozkul, Louise U. Kim, Les Baillie , Hugh Dyson, E. Diane Williamson, Karen K. Chu, Stephanie Ascough, Steven Moore, Theresa B. Huwar, John H. Robinson, Shiranee Sriskandan, and Daniel M. Altmann
J Immunol. published online March 5, 2010, doi:10.4049/jimmunol.0901581
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Henney N, Li B, Elford C, Reviriego P, Campbell A, Wann K , Evans B.
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol (2009)
The 1st paper to describe the pharmacological profile of a subtype of K channel (BK channel) in osteobasts (bone cells) and to implicate one subtype of the BK channel in cell growth and the mineralisation process.
Watkins C, Schmaljohann, D., Futaki, S., and Jones, A.T.
Biochem J. (2009) 420 (2) 179-189
This highlights the high porosity of plasma membranes to cationic cell penetrating peptides, thus opening new avenues for their use as vectors for bio-active entities.
Morgan L, Gee J, Pumford S, Farrow L, Finlay P, Robertson J, Ellis I, Kawakatsu H, Nicholson RI and Hiscox S
Cancer Biology and Therapy (2009) 8(16):23-31
A translational study that supports our previous in vitro observations suggesting that Src kinase is an important determinant of the therapeutic response of breast cancers