Uni of Liverpool’s pharmacology department recognised with Queen’s Anniversary Prize

The University of Liverpool’s Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology has been awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize to recognise its work in the improvement of the safety and effectiveness of medicines.

The department — which is one of the oldest and largest in the UK — has notable research expertise in the areas of personalised medicines, HIV drug safety, paediatric pharmacology, epilepsy therapy, cancer pharmacology, regenerative medicine’s safety, drug discovery, toxicology and drug safety, antimicrobial pharmacodynamics, and drug molecular nano-formulations. It has an international reputation for understanding all aspects of drug actions from designing and creating novel drugs, running clinical trials on new drugs, through to improving the use of existing drugs.

“Since its inception, the Department’s expertise in pharmacological understanding has ensured that we have been one of the most highly regarded Pharmacology institutions in the UK,” said Professor David MacEwan, head of the Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology. “The resulting knowledge from our molecular and clinical research has had an enormous impact on the daily lives of people by not only developing new drugs and treatments, but identifying problems in existing treatments and circumventing side-effects in future therapies.

“Through our bench to bedside approach we continuously strive to ensure our work improves the development of medicines, for the benefit of society. “It is a great honour to be awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize which recognises the excellent work carried out by our staff.”

“The Queen’s Anniversary Prizes reward excellence in work of outstanding importance and quality in higher and further education, so this honour is real testament to the deep and far-reaching impact of research carried out by the Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology here at Liverpool,” added the University’s vice chancellor, Professor Janet Beer.

The Queen’s Anniversary Prizes are administered by the Royal Anniversary Trust and presented every two years to reward innovative work of outstanding quality within the higher and further education sector. The official presentation will be made to the University in February 2018 by a member of the royal family at a ceremony to be held at Buckingham Palace.