Department of Pharmacology

About Us

Our objective is to provide world-class research and teaching in a friendly department with excellent facilities…

Undergraduate Students

We offer interesting courses for students in the Natural Sciences Tripos and Medical and Veterinary Science Tripos…

We are delighted to learn of the successful outcome of our Athena SWAN application. The Bronze award has provided the impetus for the Department to create the optimum conditions to enable the career progression of women in science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) ...

Research

The overarching theme of research in the Department is to discover fundamental mechanisms by which drugs act, and to pave the way for new drug discovery...

Postgraduate Students

The Department provides an exciting environment for postgraduate training…

Latest news

Dr David Bulmer

Jul 05, 2017

The Department would like to welcome Dr David Bulmer...

Congratulations to Laura and Ewan

Jun 15, 2017

Laura Itzhaki and Ewan Smith were both promoted as part of this year's Senior Academic Promotions exercise....

Naked mole-rats in the news!

Apr 24, 2017

Dr Ewan St. John Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire to discuss a recent study that was published in Science last week...

Professor Patrick Sexton "Allosteric regulation and biased signaling at class B GPCRs"

Mar 21, 2017

Professor Patrick Sexton (Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences) visiting the department on Friday...

Pharmacology at the Cambridge Science Festival

Mar 20, 2017

Using a new display with flashing models and lots of drugs to test, designed and built by Dr Matthew Harper and Dr Jon Holdich, visitors explored the science behind beta blockers and many other drugs...

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