"pharmacology and therapeutics" blog posts
PBPK2024 workshop: optimising drug therapies
Professor Catriona Waitt is a Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Global Health. Here she tells about the physiologically based pharmacokinetic modelling (PBPK) workshop she held recently in Uganda.
Posted on: 9 February 2024
Culturing liver cells at Karolinska
Georgina Gregory is a Research Associate in the Copple Lab within the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. She recently spent three weeks in Sweden at the Karolinska Institutet and tells us about her trip.
Posted on: 20 October 2023
Spotlight: Dr Adeniyi Olagunju
This edition of Spotlight focusses on Dr Adeniyi Olagunju, a Tenure Track Fellow in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Adeniyi joined the University of Liverpool in June 2021 and recently established the Perinatal Pharmacology Group. Prior to this, Adeniyi was a Senior Lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, where his research was funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Posted on: 9 May 2023
World Breastfeeding Week 2022
Professor Catriona Waitt is a Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Global Health in the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology. Catriona’s current research ‘MILK – Maternal and Infant Lactation pharmacoKinetics’ aims to provide greater evidence to support safer use of medicines in breastfeeding mothers.
Posted on: 4 August 2022
Talking proteomics at BSPR 2022
Megan Ford is a PhD student in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. She recently attended the annual British Society for Proteome Research conference in Oxford and told us all about her research and the trip.
Posted on: 19 July 2022
Professor Simon Keller - European Young Investigator 2022 ILAE
Professor Simon Keller has been awarded the European Young Investigator Award, by the International League Against Epilepsy.
Posted on: 12 July 2022
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My First Paper - Dr Daryl Hodge
As part of our new initiative across the Faculty, are showcasing research and their researchers across the board engaging with the future generations of researchers. This week we continue our My First Paper campaign with Dr Daryl Hodge from ISMIB, telling us all about their first research paper.
Posted on: 6 May 2022
My First Paper: Reecha Sofat
As part of our new initiative across the Faculty, we will be showcasing research and their researchers across the board engaging with the future generations of researchers. Our first researcher from ISMIB is Professor Reecha Sofat, telling us all about her first research paper.
Posted on: 3 March 2022
Student wins prize at British Pharmacology Society conference
Beth Heaton, a PhD student in the department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, has won an award at the annual British Pharmacological Society (BPS: Pharmacology 2020) conference for her work on glucose uptake transporters in human immune cells.
Posted on: 8 January 2021
Life as a PhD Student in Lockdown
Rebecca Jensen is a PhD student in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. During the first national lockdown she was unable to continue her original research from home, and so she decided to volunteer for the ISARIC/WHO CCP study which looks at the urgent questions posed by Covid-19. Here she tells us what that was like, and how she is coping with the second national lockdown.
Posted on: 16 November 2020
Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed joins British Heart Foundation Board
Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed has been appointed as a trustee to the Board of the British Heart Foundation (BHF). He was appointed alongside Prudential’s Mark FitzPatrick and Professor Jill Pell from the University of Glasgow.
Posted on: 12 November 2020
From Uganda to the UK: Crossing continents for COVID-19 clinical care
Catriona Waitt is a Reader in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool, a Wellcome clinical postdoctoral fellow based at the Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, and an honorary Consultant in Acute Medicine at the Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Peter Waitt is an Acute Physician at Wirral University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Infectious Disease Institute as Uganda Clinical Lead on the Joint Mobile Emerging Disease Clinical Capability Project. Here they tell us about balancing work and family life during the pandemic, both in Uganda and in Liverpool.
Posted on: 15 October 2020