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The School of Pharmacy at Queen's has received an Athena Swan Gold Award from Advance HE, recognising its sustained commitment to gender equality. Currently, it is the only School of Pharmacy in the UK and Ireland to hold the Award.
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Prof Lamprou has lead a research team in the School of Pharmacy to develop a first of its kind 3D printed cacao-based health supplement that acts as a nutrient and vitamin carrier, helping to boost the immune system.
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Today we were delighted to see students from our Pharmacy programmes graduating.
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Hosted in the Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast, this event celebrated outstanding academic achievements throughout our undergraduate BSc and MPharm programmes.
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We were delighted to host Dr Aideen Maguire from the QUB School of Dentistry, Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to deliver the latest seminar in our 2024 series today (16th October) in the Pharmacy Lecture Theatre.
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The School of Pharmacy are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Gavin Andrews as the new Head of School of Pharmacy.
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A number of academic staff in the School have recently been successfully promoted.
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Professor David Jones has been awarded an MBE in the HM The King's Birthday Honours 2024.
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Professor Ryan Donnelly from the Queen's School of Pharmacy has won three prestigious awards for his exceptional research contribution to pharmaceutical sciences.
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The School of Pharmacy Postgraduate Away Day 2024 was held today (5th June) in the QUB Whitla Hall.
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We were delighted to host Prof Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo from the University of Santiago de Compostela to deliver the latest seminar in our 2024 series today (16th May) in the Pharmacy Lecture Theatre.
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The QUB School of Pharmacy is now ranked =35th in the QS World University Rankings.
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We were delighted to host Prof Marieke De Bruin of Utrecht University to deliver the latest seminar in our 2024 series today (10th April) in the Pharmacy Lecture Theatre.
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We were delighted to host Dr Diogo Moreira of Instituto Goncalo Moniz (Fiocruz, Brazil) yesterday (9th April) to deliver a seminar in the Pharmacy Lecture Theatre.
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The School of Pharmacy's Seminar Series 2024 continued with a seminar delivered by Professor Cristin Ryan from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) on Thursday 14th March.
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The All-Ireland Interprofessional Healthcare Challenge (AIPEC) Conference was held in Queen’s University Belfast on Friday 8 March 2024.
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Academic staff from the School of Pharmacy have contributed to a number of events as part of this year’s Northern Ireland Science Festival.
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The School of Pharmacy at Queen’s has recently contributed to this year’s “Science at Queen’s” event, delivered in partnership by the University’s Faculties of Medicine, Health, and Life Sciences, and Engineering and Physical Sciences.
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The annual School of Pharmacy Undergraduate Awards Ceremony took place on Wednesday 5th October in the magnificent surroundings of The Great Hall.
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Queen’s University Belfast has been crowned the winner of the All-Ireland Interprofessional Healthcare Challenge for Students 2022.
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A couple of weeks ago we celebrated National Postdoc Appreciation Week (20th – 24th September), an opportunity to reflect on the significant contributions that postdocs make to research.
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The School of Pharmacy at Queen's has been ranked #1 on The Guardian's best UK universities for pharmacy and pharmacology
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Calling All Students! The 2021 Mary Mulvihill Award on the theme of Virus is now launched!
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Queen’s students are continuing to work together to support individuals infected with SARS-CoV2 and to protect wider society from the consequences of the Covid-19 disease.
Qubis, the commercialisation arm of Queen’s, co-invested along side NI-based investors, and three major US-based ophthalmic venture capital firms
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Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast have discovered that bacteria often found in the lungs became more harmful and caused increased inflammation when they were exposed to e-cigarette vape.
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Queen’s University Belfast are part of a pan-European research project awarded to improve sight-saving treatments.
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Congratulations to following staff members who have won the various awards below;
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People from both sides of the border will benefit from new health and social care research trials thanks to a new Cross-Border Healthcare Intervention Trials in Ireland Network (CHITIN).
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Are you graduating and have an interesting story to tell?
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Top Queen’s University PhD students Erin Magee and Nathan Clarke received scholarships of £2,500 each to support their exciting and potentially far-reaching research projects.
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The Undergraduate Awards (UA) has announced the winners of the 2016 programme, including the Regional Winners and Highly Commended Entrants from Queen's University Belfast
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Two former Queen's University Belfast MPharm graduates were recently given the opportunity to present their work at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) Conference in Birmingham on the 4th and 5th September 2016.
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In May 2016, three School of Pharmacy staff were successful in the latest round of University Teaching Awards.
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A Queen’s academic from the School of Pharmacy has been honoured with a global prize for his contributions in the science of drug delivery.
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A ground-breaking programme of work led by Dr Lorraine Martin, and funded by the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, UK has recently been published in the prestigious American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
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The School of Pharmacy are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Carmel Hughes as Head of School of Pharmacy.
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Researchers at the School of Pharmacy at Queen’s University Belfast are leading a €50 million, Europe-wide, project to develop new drug treatments that could improve the lives of patients with cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis.
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Novel drug delivery at Queen's
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Reduced prescribing for nursing home residents
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The Journey from Proof of Concept to Successful Spin-Out.
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A collaborative, cross-border €7.7m project focussed on improving lung health
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