News & Events
News All news from the School
see also Alumni News
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.
22/07/2011
The 2011 graduation ceremony for pharmacy graduates took place on Friday 22nd July.
20/06/2011
Forty years of enthusiasm rewarded
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.
22/03/2011
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.
29/11/2010
The Network of European CNS Transplantation and Restoration (NECTAR) elects Emma Lane as their new President-Elect.
27/11/2010
Dr Tony Jewell, CMO for Wales, made the announcement on Friday 29th November
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
18/10/2010
Inhibitex announces that it has completed recruitment of 350 shingles patients for their Phase 2 trial of FV-100, a drug developed by Professor Chris McGuigan at the Welsh School of Pharmacy.
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
A novel 'Pro Tide' drug, first synthesised in the Welsh School of Pharmacy less than 2 years ago, has been successfully tested in humans by the U.S. biopharmaceutical company Inhibitex.
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.
The 2010 graduation ceremony for pharmacy graduates took place on Friday 16th July.
Dr Chris Allender re-visited the National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu in China during the week of 21st - 25th June 2010
Events
The Cardiff School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Spring Seminar Series
All Lectures will take place at 4-5pm in the New Lecture Theatre (Rm 2.60c), Redwood Building
Upcoming
Speaker: Dr Matt Smalley (European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute, Cardiff University)
Title: Stem and progenitor cells and breast cancer heterogeneity
Previous events in the School
Speaker: Uta Griesenbach (Imperial College London)
Title: Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy
Research Seminar from Prof Jan Balzarini Nov 21 2011 - 21 November 2011
New Lecture Theatre (Rm 2.60), Redwood Building at 4.00pm
'New insights for the rational choice and design of future HIV microbicides' is the title of the seminar to be held by Prof. Jan Balzarini during his next residence in Cardiff
Speaker: Marcus Rattray (Reading School of Pharmacy)
Title: Glutamate transporter dysregulation: opportunities for neuroprotective therapies?
Speaker: Richard Kay (Kstatics, Derbyshire)
Title: Evaluating Non-Inferiority in Clinical Trials; Methods and Misunderstanding
Speaker: Josh Rappaport (University of Birmingham)
Title: Membrane Protein Trafficking and Directed Cell Migration
Speaker: Dr Chew Eng Hu (National University of Singapore)
Title: Exploring the anticancer potential of biologically relevant compounds with electrophilic propensities
Speaker: Dr José Padron (Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife)
Title: A phenotypic drug discovery approach towards a new family of human topoisomerase II inhibitors
Speaker: Dr Filippo Minutolo (University of Pisa, Italy)
Title: LDH Inhibitors as Cancer Starving Agents
an archive webcast of this symposium held on Jan 20th is now available