News
The latest news from the School.
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.
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
Drs Mark Gumbleton & Arwyn Jones welcome 182 delegates from 27 countries to the 3rd biennial CDTM symposium
The Council of RPSGB honours Sam Salek at its meeting on 19th May
17/05/2010
Ms. V.J. McKenzie has donated a 1683 medical text in memory of her sister, Hilda, who was a student of Pharmacy at Cardiff in the early 1940's
13/05/2010
A novel Pro Tide drug active against hepatitis C, first synthesised in the Welsh School of Pharmacy just 18 months ago, is now being tested in humans as part of a long-term deal with U.S. biopharmaceutical company Inhibitex.
Dr Arwyn Jones together with Dr Bob Steadman (Medic) and Pete Griffiths (Chemy) have been awarded £55,000 by the EPSRC..
25/03/2010
Another successful annual Pharmacy Postgraduate Research Day was held in the Redwood Building on Wednesday 24th March, with an associated Poster Session the previous afternoon.
Dai John honoured for 'distinction in the practice & profession of pharmacy'
The two plus two year pharmacy degree programme in collaboration with Taylor's University College, Malaysia has received preliminary approval from RPSGB.
Formal hand-over of the Turner Collection to the School
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.
18/06/2008
Dr Arwyn Jones of the Welsh School of Pharmacy and Dr Robyn Wheldon-Williams of Bangor University and the National Eisteddfod of Wales have been awarded a £21,000 Wellcome Trust People Award grant to organise a stem cell exhibit and science activities at this years National Eisteddfod of Wales in Cardiff.
Dr Arwyn Jones has also been invited by the National Eisteddfod to present the main science lecture at the Cardiff National Eisteddfod.
17/09/2007
The latest students to graduate from the Welsh School of Pharmacy 18th July 2007