COVID-19 Information Please regularly visit this section of our website for updates relating to the Covid–19 pandemic. The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry What are pharmaceutical companies doing to tackle Covid-19 Please see this link to what Pharmaceutical companies are doing. Global COVID-19 Therapeutics Development Update 12th June 2020-US FDA- 20200612_Therapeutics_Weekly Data Lake Update_vShare Hever Group Survey on Covid-19 Pandemic Pharmaceutical Companies have a long tradition of collaborating in pre-competitive partnerships to share data and knowledge. The Hever Group that comprises the most senior R&D Directors from the "Top 20" (by R&D spend) Pharmaceutical Companies was established 25 years ago [...]

Thank you for making PharmSci 2019 a huge success Mark McAllister (APS Chair) & Cameron Alexander (Conference Science Chair) The APS Greenwich meeting saw the annual conference return to a three day format in the unique surroundings of Greenwich Universities maritime campus. It was the first time we had brought the conference to this location and it proved to be a real success for the Academy with strong attendance over the three days. I’d like to thank all our plenary and award lecturers who started the programme each day, they shared a [...]

The Biopharmaceutics Focus Group – 20 years of Progress in Predicting Oral Absorption As the Biopharmaceutics Focus Group (FG) has just enjoyed a long overdue change of leadership with Hannah Batchelor (University of Birmingham) replacing me in the FG lead role, I thought I would take the opportunity to reflect on how the fundamental science which drives our understanding of biopharmaceutics has changed over the years. The FG has been in operation since the mid-90s (it’s too long ago for any of us to be more accurate!) and was originally chaired by Jim Murray who was then at AstraZeneca.  [...]

Recognising excellence in pharmaceutical science We are pleased to announce the winners of the Hanbury Memorial Medal and the Harrison Memorial Medal. Congratulations to the two winners: Prof Alexander (Sandy) Taylor Florence CBE and Prof Yvonne Perrie. The Hanbury Memorial Medal Award Following the death of Daniel Hanbury in 1875, a fund was established in his memory. The fund is used to support the award of a medal which was originally given for "high excellence in the prosecution or promotion of original research in the Natural History and Chemistry of Drugs." Nowadays, the award is made quinquennially by the RPS [...]

APS PharmSci Conference BlogThis year’s APS PharmSci Conference to be held in the University of Greenwich (Wednesday 11thto Friday 13thSeptember) will be the tenth organised by the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Let’s look back over the last nine years and review a tiny part of what the Conferences have covered to give a taster of what you might expect from this year’s meeting.APS PharmSci is a chance for Pharmaceutical Scientists to meet and exchange ideas, to present their latest research, to view the latest equipment and offerings from the exhibitors and to network. Attendees are approximately equally divided between academics, students [...]