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of Pharmacy
MAKING KNOWLEDGE WORK
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Bradford School of Pharmacy
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Professor Barry Winn BSc PhD Glas., MCOptom School of Pharmacy please use the code +44 1274 before the
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Email: enquiries@bradford.ac.uk
School of Pharmacy Tel: 01274 234661
Head of Department Fax: 01274 235600
Professor Brenda Costall BPharm PhD DSc Brad. Email: pharmacy@bradford.ac.uk
Website: www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/pharmacy
CONTENTS
Welcome to the Bradford School of Pharmacy 1
Special features 2
History of innovation 3
Staff 5
Industrial expertise 6
The Bradford School of Pharmacy 7
How to find us Inside Back Cover
Contact details Back Cover
WELCOME TO THE BRADFORD SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
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Throughout our rich history there has been a drive to innovate, which is exemplified by our work
today. The School now delivers no less than six courses with responsibility for over 100 staff and
1000 students. Our undergraduate MPharm course is the only one in the country to embed two
six-month sandwich placements.
Bradford School of Pharmacy (BSP) can A major driver for innovation is But Bradford School of Pharmacy does
trace its origins back to the early employer needs, which link closely with not stay still, we are working towards
nineteenth century and Bradford government agendas for the NHS in maximum scores at the next Subject
Technical College. In 1841 the which pharmacists play key roles. The Review, and in the 2006 Research
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain School therefore led in embedding key Assessment Exercise, and are following
accredited its pharmacy course, which skills within its courses. Such initiatives, the European EFQM Excellence model
developed into an external degree linked with fresh curricula, ensure that to ensure that leadership and people
programme in 1927 to be owned by the our students leave ‘fit to practise’, with management skills are present in
University of Bradford when it received a drive for continuing professional abundance for the future - here we
its charter in 1966. development. It is not surprising, share the excitement of this vision for
therefore, to find our alumni holding our future with you! Welcome to the
The BSc Pharmaceutical Management key posts across the pharmacy Bradford School of Pharmacy!
widens participation by training professions both in the UK and abroad.
pharmaceutical scientists with
managerial skills. The Master’s in The School’s drive to lead in pharmacy
Pharmaceutical Services and Medicines education is matched by our unique
Control updates top-ranking “molecules to man” research approach
pharmacists from overseas countries. which embraces all staff of the School.
Two Master’s in Clinical Pharmacy Multidisciplinary research in Drug
prepare community and hospital Development, Drug Delivery and Drug
pharmacists for their roles as Management has gained international
‘Pharmacists of the Future’, whilst our acclaim. Our research expertise
DPharm is the only course of its kind to extends from drug design to
train Consultant Pharmacists. formulation, drug delivery to clinical
trials. There are skills to take blue skies
research to leading-edge technology,
and we have an excellent record in
turning this technology into ventures
which are commercially viable. This is
exemplified by the recent sale in
January 2001 of the School’s first spin-
off company, Bradford Particle Design
(bpd) for $200 million.
SPECIAL FEATURES
“ I’ve absolutely loved the course so far.
The lecturers have been really helpful
and are easy to speak to,
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You always feel that you can see them about anything.
Gabriella Ardondi, MPharm student
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Throughout our history we have Our search for excellence resulted in BSP invests in the development of all
continually innovated and a score of 23 out of a maximum of its 100+ staff and as a result of this
influenced pharmacy education in 24 in the 2000 QAA subject review was recently presented with an
the UK. In 1970 Bradford launched of teaching quality. internal award of excellence for
the first sandwich degree Investors in People.
integrating the professional practice In 2001 the School received a full
and clinical experience of two and complete 5-year accreditation of 250 students per year were placed in
separate six-month pre-registration our MPharm degree course from the community pharmacies
placements into the degree course Royal Pharmaceutical Society of
allowing registration as a Great Britain. Bradford School of Pharmacy holds
pharmacist upon graduation. 200+ grants with pharmaceutical
More recently BSP’s commitment to companies including blue chip
We have always been at the forefront of research resulted in the recognition companies
postgraduate pharmacy education of BSP as an international research
being one of the first to develop clinical department with the results of the The School presents 200+ talks
diplomas/Master’s degrees for Research Assessment Exercise of annually to external bodies
pharmacists working in both hospital 2001 improving BSP’s ranking to a
and community practice. These score of 4 out of a possible 5.
diplomas develop the clinical skills of
practising pharmacists in preparation
for the exciting new roles which place
pharmacy at the heart of both primary
and secondary care, as detailed in the
NHS programme for pharmacy.
HISTORY OF INNOVATION
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The future pharmacist will be one who
manages medicines, who prescribes,
who is the consultant for pharmaceutical care
Why do we pride ourselves on The School’s innovative course in Our innovative approach to delivering
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innovation? Firstly, with an eye on Pharmaceutical Management draws on teaching programmes meant we were
the employability of our students the teaching excellence within the one of the first Schools to provide
from the MPharm course, we took the School of Management to help train Continuing Professional Development
brave step of building on a sound scientifically adept managers. Students (CPD) by distance learning. Our
science base to embed pharmacy of this course, attracted from a range of Diploma/Master’s in Hospital and
practice throughout all years. backgrounds and experiences, have Community Pharmacy bring together
value-added career opportunities, and professionals who enrich the learning
It is fitting, therefore, that the first more than a few are now operating at environment, as do the professionals,
Chair in Pharmacy Practice was created board level in both small and large from many branches of pharmacy, who
at Bradford, and that Bradford companies. Indeed, Bradford graduates join us from overseas countries to study
developed the only integrated sandwich all leave to find fulfilling employment on its Master’s in Pharmaceutical
course which allows students to leave and many have found their future Services and Medicines Control - a
as pharmacists, bar the professional employer long before they leave the course responding to employer needs,
examination where our performance University. being initially funded by the British
(98% plus pass rate) maintains the Pharma Group.
position as one of the top three
pharmacy schools in the UK.
HISTORY OF INNOVATION
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The School has developed in an ever- This innovative approach to At the heart of the Bradford School of
changing environment to which it must pharmaceutical education makes us one Pharmacy is the human resource of
respond. The future pharmacist will be of the most networked of the Schools of both staff and students. The vibrant
one who manages medicines, who Pharmacy in the UK. Our CPD multidisciplinary atmosphere created by
prescribes, who is the consultant for programmes operate across all regional the people provides an atmosphere
pharmaceutical care. To add to our hospitals - Leeds, Sheffield, Airedale, conducive to learning and research. The
undergraduate and established CPD and we have Professorial appointments friendliness and approachability of staff
programmes our “taught” doctoral at each location to oversee its provision. is one of the strengths of the School
programme is innovative in using We influence local policy via Bradford’s and one that underpins the ethos of the
accreditation of prior learning with Health Authority, Primary Care Trusts learning and teaching environment
taught and research elements to and Pharmacy Development Group. within. The staff’s dedication to
develop the consultant pharmacist for The School’s provision has an research informs much of our teaching -
the future. international appeal, with plans to teaching which is subject to regular
franchise our courses in Singapore, module and course review, taking into
India and Hong Kong set to mature in account the opinions and views of
2002-03 and we already know of a students, employers and of changes
waiting list of 200+ candidates in within the profession of pharmacy,
Singapore. In addition to teaching ensuring that teaching remains at the
activities, research takes our work across forefront of knowledge.
Europe, USA and Japan. The School
enjoys a continuous flow of visitors to
its laboratories, many working as staff
for many months at a time.
STAFF
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BSP invests in the development of all its 100+ staff
recently presented
and as a result of this was
with an internal award of excellence
for Investors in People.
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33 of our staff advise 42 funding/ Professor Henry Dr Jo Neill is working
professional bodies whilst 21 are Chrystyn, along with towards the
appointed to 13 professional bodies his senior staff, is development of novel
(including the European Federation investigating the preclinical models of
for Pharmaceutical Sciences, the healthcare impact of depression and
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great pharmaceutical cognitive dysfunction
Britain and the EU Frameworks) services. These studies include a large associated with schizophrenia. In
project on the Pharmaceutical Care of addition she is researching the
45 staff have published over 560 older people in conjunction with neurobiology of ingestive behaviour,
papers and reviewed for over 200 community pharmacists in Yorkshire, particularly mechanisms involved in
international journals. They have following a successful bid to the Medical antipsychotic induced weight gain.
presented over 600 papers (255 Research Council for £0.98million.
abroad) at international conferences Dr Julie Morgan
in the last 5 years. 14 staff hold 43 Dr Simon Carrington graduated from the
editorial posts. recently joined the School of Pharmacy in
Drug Development 1995 and remained
Professors Rowe and York have chaired area with research within the University
the British Pharmaceutical Conference interests in the design as a postgraduate PhD
in 1999 and 2001 respectively. Dr C and synthesis of small student researching the role of
Wright chaired and organised the molecules which are cytotoxic through pharmacists in Primary Care by
International Symposium on Natural DNA binding and hence have the undertaking patient medication reviews
Products in 2000. potential as anti-tumour agents in the in order to provide the best
treatment of cancers. pharmaceutical care for patients within
Dr Nicolaou chaired and organised the a number of medical practices. Julie has
EU-funded International Symposium on Dr Nick Blagden has recently joined now been awarded her PhD and holds a
Biochemistry of Lipids in 1999. Drs BSP’s Drug Delivery group. Building on joint post as a pharmaceutical advisor
Obrenovitch, Kelly and Wood chaired and expertise gained in America, Nick to a Primary Care Trust and that of
organised the British Pharmacological researches crystal engineering for teacher practitioner within the School.
Society Conference in 2000. designing drug particles with optimal Also working within the drug
properties for industrial processing and management discipline is Dr Mahendra
Within the area of Drug Delivery, controlling drug release. Patel, whose research involves the study
Professor Peter York leads his field in of prescribing variations in Bradford, in
molecular pharmaceutics heading up Within the discipline particular how and why this is affected
research into the properties of of Drug Development, by ethnicity.
pharmaceutical materials in the design of Dr Steven Britland is
drug delivery systems. Recent research working with a team of
with supercritical fluids, using researchers developing
conventional drugs, polymers and interface technology
biological therapeutic agents, has for controlling and measuring cell
provided breakthrough manufacturing behaviour. This cell engineering work
processes for controlled particle formation. has become a focus for interdisciplinary
research in nanotechnology at BSP.
INDUSTRIAL EXPERTISE
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bpd - Bradford Particle Design was AGT - Dr Donald Eagland and Dr Nick PROFITS - is a research and
founded by Professor Peter York and Crowther founded Advanced Gel consultancy unit for industrial firms
colleagues. The company was built Technology (AGT), another of BSP’s established within the Shool by
on, and developed from, the basic spin-off companies. This company Professor Ray Rowe and Professor Peter
science researched in the School in exploits novel hydrogel products. Such York. PROFITS (Product Formulation
particle formulation and material technology has a breadth of using Intelligent Software) provides a
design using supercritical fluids. applications from the controlled unique platform to allow industry more
This allows unprecedented control over absorption of substances to their slow rational approaches to formulate the
particle size, shape and habit, release, including the controlled ever increasing numbers of potential
combined with the potential to delivery of medicines. AGT has a major drug candidates. The technology, based
generate alternative polymorphic contract with Aqueolic (Canada) and around artificial intelligence, allows
forms of a drug not available through one of the UK’s largest agro-chemical management of data, knowledge and
conventional crystallisation. companies. Initial capital (£750k) is in practice in a self-learning system within
place and the company is already formulation science. PROFITS is funded
The work with biomaterials is of manufacturing on the Science Park through a consortium of 7 major
particular note - proteins, peptides, adjacent to the University. The companies and is expanding.
plasmid DNA, antibodies, and vaccines expansion is such that a second
have been produced for novel drug company, Bradford Life Sciences, is
delivery systems. The industrial already being established to handle the
relevance and importance attached to breadth of application in the area of
this work is exemplified by the pharmaceutics and healthcare. Links
remarkable growth of the company with BSP are strong, including patent
(employing over 35 staff at the time of ownership and industrial sponsorship
purchase in January 2001 for for postgraduate students.
£137million) with plans for
considerable expansion, yet the
organisation has, and will continue to
retain, a very strong science base and
close collaboration with the School.
Thus, over £1 million of Research
Council funding (including EPSRC,
BBSRC) on supercritical fluids has
been awarded to the Bradford School
of Pharmacy for its collaborative work
with bpd.
THE BRADFORD SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
Drug Drug
Delivery Development led by professors peter york
and brian barry
Drug Particle Design Crystal Engineering
Delivery Cell Engineering Formulation Science
Material Science and Processing
Transdermal Drug Delivery
led by professor robert naylor
Drug
Drug Development
Neuroscience Cell Engineering
Cancer Chemotherapy
Management Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis
led by professor henry chrystyn
Clinical Pharmaceutics
Drug
Medicines Management
Management
Pharmaceutical Services
Pharmaceutical Biomedical Analysis
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The aim of the Bradford School of The School will build on its unique and
Pharmacy is to produce pharmacists past history by continuing to develop
who are fully equipped to practise new and innovative curricula that are
within a dynamic health care designed around the needs of students,
system, cope with uncertainty and employers and society in consultation
adapt to change, and who and collaboration with them and other
understand the need and stakeholders. We will develop curricula
professional obligation for a that are integrated and which provide
commitment to continuing opportunities for work-based learning,
education and training, and and multi-professional education. The
professional development, curricula will make explicit the context
throughout their professional life. for what is to be learned,
acknowledging the importance of key
skills for employment.
In building for the future we will reflect
and build on our successes. We will
continue to build and develop a team of
academic, technical and administrative
support staff equipped with the skills to
deliver excellence by embracing the
ethos of Investors in People.
THE BRADFORD SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
8 Dr Frank Fildes Sir Christopher Benson
The School will build on the reputation The School focuses its “molecules to
Dr Frank Fildes, Senior Vice- of our practice research to inform future man” research base around the areas of
President and Head of Global government thinking and respond to drug development, drug delivery and
Development at AstraZeneca, is on the needs in developing pharmacists for drug management with particular
the School’s prestigious External an evolving pharmacy profession and emphasis on the neurosciences, cancer
Advisory Board and helped to reformed National Health Service. research, and drug delivery. We are
facilitate investment in bpd. currently in the process of designing
Dr Fildes received an honorary Research underpins the teaching, and developing an exciting new
degree of Doctor of Science from development and expansion at BSP. venture, the Institute of
Bradford University in July 2001. Following the successful outcome of the Pharmaceutical Innovation (see
Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in artist’s impression below). This centre
Sir Christopher Benson also received December 2001, the School of will expand our research capabilities
an honorary degree from Bradford Pharmacy moves from a 3a rating to and advance our research in computer
in December 2001. Sir Christopher that of a 4, which recognises its predictability. We will continue to
is currently Chairman of bpd, and is international excellence. However we cultivate, develop and perfect our spin-
a past chairman of Boots, and past are now looking to build on this success off company initiatives on our adjacent
director of House of Fraser. He has and aim to improve this score by Science Park and, via manufacture and
agreed to chair our second encouraging new staff to strive to gain other outlets, help build a better future
company, AGT, and is helping with international reputations. for the people of our city.
the development of Bradford
Life Sciences.
Proposed Institute of
Pharmaceutical Innovation
HOW TO FIND US
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MAKING KNOWLEDGE WORK
CONTACT DETAILS
undergraduate postgraduate
MPharm Hons 4/5 year course MSc in Pharmaceutical Services and Medicines Control
Dr Peter Linley Mrs Susan Bunney
Dr Liz Kelly Tel: 01274 234711
Tel: 01274 234661 Email: s.bunney@bradford.ac.uk
Email: pharmacy@bradford.ac.uk
MSc in Clinical Pharmacy (Community)
BSc Hons Pharmaceutical Management Dr David Wright
Dr Michael C Bonner Tel: 01274 234740
Tel: 01274 234712 Email: d.wright@bradford.ac.uk
Email: m.bonner@bradford.ac.uk
MSc in Clinical Pharmacy (Hospital)
Ms Ann Page
Tel: 01274 234740
Email: a.v.page@bradford.ac.uk
DPharm
Professor A F Fell
Tel: 01274 234709
Email: a.f.fell@bradford.ac.uk
Research (MPhil, PhD)
Mrs Susan Bunney
Tel: 01274 234711
Email: s.bunney@bradford.ac.uk
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