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Congratulations to Cynthia Okoye for her successful PhD viva!

6 March 2023

We are very happy to announce that Cynthia Okoye has successfully defended her PhD viva! Her thesis was titled ' Harnessing the Anaphase Promoting Complex for Targeted Protein Degradation'. It focused on designing molecules that can be used to hijack a particular ubiquitin ligase. This facilitates the targeted destruction...

Congratulations to Abigail Pearce for her successful PhD viva!

21 February 2023

We are proud to announce that Abigail Pearce, a member of the Cell Signalling Group, has successfully defended her Viva. Her thesis she defended is entitled "Influence of Peptide Allosteric Modulators on Agonist Bias at Class B1 G protein-Coupled Receptors", which looks at the endogenous mechanisms by which Class B1 GPCRs...

Congratulations to Dr Maria Zacharopoulou for receiving the Ernest Oppenheimer Research Fellowship

14 February 2023

Dr Maria Zacharopoulou, a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Itzhaki Lab, recently won the prestigious E rnest Oppenheimer Early Career Research Fellowship . This three-year fellowship will commence in October 2023, focusing on a collaboration project between the Itzhaki and Mela labs. The collaboration will focus on...

Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science

10 February 2023

The annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science (IDWGS) is set for Saturday 11th of February. Spearheaded by the United Nations , the day celebrates the vital contribution of women and girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). To coincide with this day, we recently interviewed Dr...

Congratulations to Dr Mark Waterhouse for winning an AZ award

4 November 2022

The department would like to congratulate Dr Mark Waterhouse from Khaled Lab on being selected as one of the six finalists for AstraZeneca’s R&D Postdoctoral Challenge . AstraZeneca recently held its R&D Postdoctoral Challenge with research positions for two years at one of the Company’s strategic R&D centres...

New PhD Studentships posted on the website

19 October 2022

We are excited to announce that we have five fully funded PhD studentships available in the Department, currently accepting applications. Please see our PhD Studentships and Jobs pages for more information.

Professor Mark Howarth will be our new Sheild Professor of Pharmacology

5 July 2022

We are delighted to announce that Professor Mark Howarth will be our new Sheild Professor of Pharmacology from October 2022. Mark is currently a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry Oxford, and we are very much looking forward to him joining us in the autumn.

In Memoriam - Arnold Burgen FRS MAE

6 June 2022

We were greatly saddened to learn of the death of Professor Sir Arnold Burgen FRS MAE, shortly after he celebrated his 100th birthday. Arnold Burgen was Sheild Professor of Pharmacology from 1962-1971 and was a greatly valued colleague and mentor. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1964 and was its Foreign...

Congratulations to Dr David Bulmer

21 December 2021

Congratulations to Dr David Bulmer, who has recently signed a 3-year collaborative research agreement with GlaxoSmithKline to look at the utility of drugs targeting orphan G protein coupled receptors for the treatment of digestive diseases.

Congratulations to Annabel Cardno and Adarsh Menon

30 November 2021

Congratulations to Annabel Cardno and Adarsh Menon. Annabel - now a PhD student in the Department – was recently awarded the British Pharmacological Society’s Undergraduate Pharmacology Prize for her outstanding results in Part II Pharmacology.

Congratulations to Cynthia Okoye for her successful PhD viva!

Congratulations to Abigail Pearce for her successful PhD viva!

Congratulations to Dr Maria Zacharopoulou for receiving the Ernest Oppenheimer Research Fellowship

Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Congratulations to Dr Mark Waterhouse for winning an AZ award

New PhD Studentships posted on the website

Professor Mark Howarth will be our new Sheild Professor of Pharmacology

In Memoriam - Arnold Burgen FRS MAE

Congratulations to Dr David Bulmer

Congratulations to Annabel Cardno and Adarsh Menon

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