Pharma news

Nawin from Nepal: I was homesick

Our Mr. Average from the the University Post's 'Your Typical Day' survey is from Nepal. He spends time with family and friends at home via Skype, Facebook

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Here is your typical day

Out the door in fifteen minutes

Gallery: Your typical day. The graphs

Staff, student reps clash with Rector over merger

Soon-to-be-mergered departments are hotbeds of deep staff and student frustration. This is according to staff and student-elected board members of the University of Copenhagen at last week's board meeting. Rector Ralf Hemmingsen, on the other hand, points to a fruitful academic dialogue

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Rector proposes merger into two super faculties

Merger controversy addressed head on

Dean: Merger will destroy my Faculty

Dean: I hope we can all stand together

At the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rector and Dean spoke of the merger strengthening, not weakening, pharmaceutical study and research

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Rector proposes merger into two super faculties

Merger controversy addressed head on

Rector, Dean hit by shower of questions

Rector: This is not a 'coup'

Staff, students angered by 24 hr warning

Comment: Explain why we need the merger, please

Staff, students angered by 24 hr warning

Staff and students frustrated by short, sharp, shocker invitation for key faculty meetings. They will be broadcast two days later, for those that miss them, says vice director for communication

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Rector: This is not a 'coup'

Rector proposes merger into two super faculties

Dean: Merger will destroy my Faculty

While the Department of Chemistry welcomes the prospect of being merged with chemisty research at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharma's Dean Sven Frøkjær thinks otherwise. The merger would simply destroy a well-functioning research environment, he says

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Pharma calls meeting, as disputed report breaks

'Nano'-drugs are bad news for diseases

Nanoparticles can get the drugs exactly to the place where they are needed. This means patients need less medicine, and get fewer side effects.

University sports day 2010

Record numbers of students from the Faculties of Science and the Pharmaceutical Sciences participated and competed in various activities and fitness tests at the Science Sport and Testing Day on Friday.

Not only was the event a chance to win sporting events, but it also gave the opportunity for new international students at graduate and PHD level to socialise and work as teams.

There were nearly 600 participants on the day. Click on the first photo and follow the event.

Photographs by Andrew Bartle.

Philosopher fights for fair drug prices

The University Post meets Thomas Pogge, a philosopher with a utopian yet pragmatic plan to make life-saving drugs against the »diseases of poverty« available to all, at the lowest possible price

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Comment: Making malaria pills profitable

Bosnia-network converges on the study of drugs

A large group of students from Bosnia have made the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences their home

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Lobbying in Copenhagen for EU membership