Overview

The School of Pharmacy is a constituent college of the University of London. It was founded by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 1842 as the College of the Pharmaceutical Society. It was later renamed The School of Pharmacy in 1949. The School is organised into four academic departments, each with one or more associated specialist research centres. Their research focuses on advancing and understanding medicines and health care, and in creating new medicines.

 

The School of Pharmacy, University of London is the only free-standing specialist school in the UK dedicated entirely to teaching and research in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences; with world-class teaching and a top rated research quality profile. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise for British universities 90 per cent of the research activity at The School of Pharmacy was deemed internationally significant and 25 per cent world-leading. The School of Pharmacy is a member of UKCISA, an organisation devoted to the interests of international students studying in Britain.

 

They have collaboration with International Pharmaceutical Federation Collaborating Centre (FIPCC) - FIP is a federation of national pharmaceutical associations and societies and represents pharmacists and pharmaceutical personnel worldwide and London International Development Centre (LIDC) - The London International Development Centre (LIDC) tackles international development challenges in pioneering ways by bringing together more than 1,000 social and natural scientists, postgraduate students and alumni from the University of London’s six Bloomsbury Colleges. The specialist Colleges involved in the interdisciplinary initiative are Birkbeck, Institute of Education, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Royal Veterinary College, School of Oriental and African Studies, and The School of Pharmacy.

 

The demand for our graduates at all levels is strong. In our innovative Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree, we integrate the pharmaceutical and molecular sciences with clinical therapeutics and patient care to meet the needs of the next generation of pharmacists in all sectors - community, primary care, hospital, industry, regulatory and academia. Many of our undergraduates spend a period studying in other European countries or even further afield, for example in the USA, Australia or New Zealand. An important focus for the School is Molecular Pharmacy.

 

The Centre for Paediatric Pharmacy Research is another relatively new venture which is successfully achieving its aims of assessing, improving and monitoring medicines in children.  The Centre is a collaborative venture with the renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Institute of Child Health, University College London. They have a strong reputation both nationally and overseas, as a result of over 150 years of proven excellence in teaching and research.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Location and Facilities
The School of Pharmacy is located in London. The School of Pharmacy has an allocation of beds in the University of London's intercollegiate halls of residence. Priority is given to the international undergraduate (MPharm) students. If you are renting or are about to rent in the private sector, you should contact the University of London housing services. Students can also try to get accommodation through any of the following agencies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

List of Departments

The School is organised into four academic departments. Each department has one or more associated Specialist research centres. 

Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry - is the largest of the four Departments at The School of Pharmacy, and the research conducted there is very wide-ranging. Much of this research is focused in cancer, natural products and phytomedicines, molecular neurosciences and biopharmaceutical analysis. Departmental staff help teach the undergraduate MPharm degree in the areas of drug discovery, medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacognosy/medicinal plants, and an MSc in Pharmacognosy is to be offered for the first time this year.

 

Pharmacology - The Wellcome Department of Pharmacology is one of the oldest departments of pharmacology in the UK. The Department has played a major role in the development of Pharmacology in the UK and many pharmacologists who trained here are to be found in academies and in industries all over the world. The research focuses on the nervous system, and a wide range of approaches are used to study normal brain function and the causes of many neurological and psychiatric diseases.

 

Pharmaceutics - The Department of Pharmaceutics is home to a wide range of research activities, such as in Materials Science and Processing and Clinical Pharmaceutical Science. Their research in Materials Science and Processing is centred on the fundamental properties of materials and their adaptation to optimise processing and enhance drug delivery. They have many joint ventures, such as in the Centre for Paediatric Pharmacy Research, a joint venture with Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Institute of Child Health, and in the Clinical Pharmaceutics with University College Hospitals and Camden and Islington's NHS Trust. The Microbiology Research Group is also well-established, with work focusing mainly in overcoming antibiotic resistance and obtaining new actives from natural sources. The Group has been particularly successful in investigating new approaches to the treatment of the ‘superbug’ MRSA.

 

Practice and Policy - The clear goal of the Department of Practice and Policy is to make the use of medicines safer and more effective through teaching, service and research. They are a diverse group of pharmacists and social science researchers who have developed a wide network of associations with other academic disciplines, including anthropology, economics, mathematical modelling, and psychology. Their academic collaborators include University College London, Imperial College London, London School of Economics, the Institute of Education and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. They also have strong links with several major London hospitals including Guy's and St Thomas’s, University College Hospitals, Hammersmith, Barts and the London, and Great Ormond Street. Practice and Policy staff are involved in curricular development and teaching across all four years of the MPharm course, and the School has one of the largest postgraduate programmes in Europe. Its student body includes hospital pharmacists studying for a range of Certificate, Diploma and MSc qualifications.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Courses Offered

Sr.no	Level	Name of the Program
1	PG	Master of Pharmacy
2	PG	Msc in Clinical Pharmacy, International practice & Policy
3	PG	Msc in Drug Delivery
4	PG	Msc in Drug Discovery
5	PG	Msc in Pharmacognosy
6	PG	Master of research
7	PG	Research degrees

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scholarships

Scholarships for postgraduate courses

• DFID Shared Scholarship Scheme - The School of Pharmacy offers three full scholarships for the academic year 2010/11 through the Department of International Development (DFID) Shared Scholarship Scheme for the full-time MSc courses. The 30 April 2010 deadline for the DFID Shared Scholarship Scheme has passed and no further applications will be accepted for 2010/11.
• British Chevening Scholarships
  
• Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellow Plan (CSFP)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

General Intake

The School of Pharmacy have only one intake i.e. September

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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