Pharmacy School Research Blog – August 2014
August 4, 2014
This week’s blog has been provided by Dr Jonas Emsley, our Research Director in the School of Pharmacy: Dear All This is the first Pharmacy School Research Blog which will contain updates from our research activity including all the developments on big papers published, big grants awarded and exciting new international links developed between Nottingham and other …
Pharmacy – A cyborg era of stimulating research
July 29, 2014
This week’s blog is from Dr Frankie Rawson, who is the Leverhulme Research Fellow at the Pharmacy School in Nottingham. Here is his Blog: For those of you that are “Trekkie” fans you will be aware of a collection of alien races known as the “Borg”. My embarrassing confession is that I am a little …
Landladies and Laboratory Classes
June 23, 2014
Blog 2: Landladies and Laboratory Classes In 1957 it was frowned upon by the University for students to rent and share houses and flats in the private sector: Nottingham’s finest, and there were fewer than 1000 at that time, had to be cosseted in halls of residence aping the Oxbridge tradition, or looked after by …
Olivia’s OSCE
June 10, 2014
Olivia Gunapalan, one of our second year Pharmacy undergraduates, has written a blog about the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) which she carried out in January, 2014. See Olivia’s blog below: Some of us have written examinations, some of us have online examinations and then some of us have OSCEs.. OSCEs are the objective structured …
Statins: The Thatcher of Drugs
June 2, 2014
7 Million people in the UK currently take a Statin, with the NHS claiming that they save an estimated 7,000 lives per year. On paper, they may look like a wonder drug. Indeed, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommend them as primary prevention for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in adults with a …
Novel Antibiotics: Is enough being done?
May 5, 2014
It is well documented in the media and literature that current antibiotics available on the market are losing their effectiveness against bacterial infections due to bacterial resistance. However, there is little coverage on what is being done to find novel antibiotics and this raises the question; is enough being done to discover new antibiotics? Many …
The road to Nottingham Pier
April 28, 2014
I am very pleased to announce that we have a new blogger in town! This eminent person is our very own Emeritus Professor, Malcolm Stevens. He has agreed to share with us ‘His Story’ and the first instalment can be seen below! The 1950’s was not the ideal decade to be in one’s teenage prime. …
What is ISAC?
January 13, 2014
This week’s blog is provided by Dr Matthew Piggott, the Business Manager from ISAC: What is ISAC? ISAC is the Interface and Surface Analysis Centre. Its role is to market and coordinate access to the combined surface analytical facilities and expertise across the University of Nottingham (UoN) and at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). …
Treasure Maps
October 10, 2013
Maps are great, and we use them a lot in our research. I’m not talking about maps of places, but maps of shapes. Let me explain. Imagine you are interested in the shapes of triangles. Assuming that you don’t care about their size, just their shape, then you can define the shape of any triangle …
The Internet prescribes my medication.
September 30, 2013
After writing my blog on ‘drug dependence’, I couldn’t help but contemplate on the issue of buying prescription drugs online. I like many others may find some health issues very personal, making this harder to share face to face in a doctor’s or pharmacist’s consultation room. It is at this point where many patients would …
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