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Growing green ‘social prescribing’

12 March 2021

Cardiff partners Cynon Valley Organic Adventures

Wellness tea

Welsh ‘wellness’ tea arrives in lockdown

8 January 2021

Welsh Brew and Cardiff create green tea

Professor Anthony Campbell and Professor Barbara Chadwick

New Year’s Honours

8 January 2021

Members of the University community have been recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List.

School of Pharmacy researchers develop new compound to fight cancer

23 September 2020

New compounds that could trigger the immune system to fight cancer have been developed at the Cardiff School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Cardiff University COVID-19 testing lab

Cardiff University to offer coronavirus tests to thousands of staff and students

23 September 2020

Large-scale asymptomatic screening service set to start

Pharmabees launches Just Giving page

14 September 2020

Pollinator project appeals for public support

Pharmabees help create artwork at University Hospital Llandough

21 August 2020

A new art installation is being installed at local hospital to promote wellbeing and the science of bees and honey.

Rewilding Cardiff with Citizen Scientists

17 July 2020

The Pharmabees team are looking to rewild the city with the help of its residents

Pharmabees team up with Cardiff Council

17 July 2020

The Pharmabees team have joined forces with Cardiff Council to provide a set of online resources from primary school children.

Spot a bee image

Cardiff’s Spot-a-bee creates UK buzz

13 May 2020

App promotes UK citizen science in lockdown

Remdesivir Approved by the FDA to Treat COVID-19

11 May 2020

The American FDA approve antiviral drug to help in the battle against COVID-19

Pharmabees attend beer festival

9 March 2020

The Pharmabees team attend beer festival

CALIN project wins €5 million of extra funding

21 February 2020

The second phase of CALIN has been given the go ahead by funders.

The prize winners with Dr Henson and his wife, Lucy

Inaugural McGuigan Symposium celebrates pioneers in drug discovery

13 December 2019

The inaugural Chris McGuigan Symposium has taken place in Cardiff University, celebrating researchers in the field of drug discovery.

The resurrection of phospho-amino acid containing drugs

6 December 2019

Dr Youcef Mehellou and his team have developed a new way to target cancer cells that will aid the discovery of new medicines.

Dr Fabrizio Pertusati and Dr Michaela Serpi

Researchers discover potential new treatment for rare muscle-wasting disease

21 November 2019

New compound could slow progression of ‘one in a million’ GNE myopathy

James Birchall, Louise Hughes, Ryan Mootoo and Sion Coulman

Students at the School of Pharmacy step back in time to celebrate centenary

18 November 2019

Students step back in time to experience lectures as they would have been 100 years ago, to celebrate the School of Pharmacy’s centenary.

School of Pharmacy host Centenary Conference

4 November 2019

The School of Pharmacy has kicked off its centenary celebrations with a conference for key stakeholders.

Brain Box

Virtual MRI scan for pupils

21 October 2019

University offers VR scan as part of ‘Brain Box’ resource for teachers

School of Pharmacy brings The Science of Medicines to the 2019 National Eisteddfod in Llanrwst

16 September 2019

The School of Pharmacy enjoys a week of public engagement in science at the National Eisteddfod of Wales