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Home > What we do > Awards and scholarships > Academic Excellence Awards

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has relaunched its programme of PhD studentships. The relaunched studentships - the Academic Excellence Awards - are designed to help exceptional pharmacists and pharmacy graduates who are interested in pursuing a career in academic pharmacy to undertake PhD training in one of the 17 UK schools of pharmacy with fully accredited MPharm programmes.

The Academic Excellence Awards will add to the overall pool of money available to train the next generation of academics who will teach and conduct research in and with the schools of pharmacy.

2009 awards

The closing date for applications for hosting the Academic Excellence Awards for 2009 was 19 March 2008.

The Panel Review day is 25 June 2008.

For further information, please contact:

Brad McConachie
Tel: 020 7572 2278
e-mail: brad.mcconachie@rpsgb.org

2008 awards

The winners of the Academic Excellence Awards for 2008, who are hosting the awards, are:

Cardiff University for the Detection of lipopolysaccharide pyrogens by molecularly-imprinted polymers. The supervisors are Dr Chris Allender, Dr Mark Gumbleton, Professor Stephen Denyer and Dr JY Millard.
Nottingham University for the Selective inhibitors for nuclear receptors: an alternative to anti-hormone therapies. The lead supervisor is Professor David Heery.

2007 awards

The winners of the Academic Excellence Awards for 2007 were:

Queens University Belfast is hosting a PhD on The role of organisational culture on prescribing in nursing homes for older people, with the supervision of Professor Carmel M. Hughes and Professor Brendan McCormack.
London University is hosting a PhD on Antibacterial activity of symmetric bis-benzimidazole-based DNA minor groove-binding agents, with the supervision of Professor Peter W Taylor and Professor Stephen Neidle.

Funding decisions are based on quality of the training and support provided and are made by an awarding panel. The current awarding panel members are:

Professor Martyn Davies (Professor of Biomedical Surface Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham)
Professor Karen Hassell (Chair in Social Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester)
Professor Carmel Hughes (Chair in Primary Care Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast)
Professor Chris McGuigan (Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Welsh School of Pharmacy, University of Wales)
Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu (Chair in Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, School of Pharmacy, University of London)