Pharmacy Archives - Engagement and Impact

Venomous snakebites: rapid action saves lives

Lack of knowledge about snakes and snakebite envenomation (SBE) is a major factor that increases disabilities and deaths and the economic hardship they cause, particularly in agricultural communities in developing...Read More >

DASHing towards faster drug discovery

Speedier drug discovery is now possible thanks to Reading computing software that allows complex molecular crystal structures to be solved faster than ever before. DASH is computer software that helps...Read More >

The James Parkinson Bicentennial

Two hundred years after apothecary and medical practitioner James Parkinson wrote his essay describing the ‘Shaking Palsy’, we still don’t fully understand the disease named after him. Research into Parkinson’s…Read More >

Novel strategies for the diagnosis and treatment of snakebites

While large research programmes search for cures for many diseases, venomous snakebites quietly kill around 100,000 people every year. Children, often barefoot in the fields of remote, rural communities are…Read More >

Bright sparks

Never mind changing lightbulbs – how many neuroscientists does it take to show us how our brains work? In this case, just one: pharmacy lecturer Dr Mark Dallas. Working with…Read More >

Preventing snake bites (2018)

Researchers from Reading are working to understand and educate the public on reducing and preventing snakebites.