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Teaching

We are part of the Centre for Clinical Pharmacology at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry - itself part of Queen Mary University of London.

We are involved in training in various forms:

  • We teach students during medical training, usually in lectures on clinical trials and on the way drugs work and on the different treatments available for diseases.
  • Professor Johnston and Dr Ravic run a Masters (MSc) level course in Clinical Drug Development for doctors, nurses and other health professionals, which attracts students from all over the world (http://www.whri.qmul.ac.uk/courses/mscpgdip_cdd/index.html ).
  • We run courses on clinical trials and train qualified doctors and nurses (usually GPs and practice nurses) in the management of blood pressure and cholesterol.

Doctoral and post-doctoral students in the William Harvey Research Institute are involved in state-of-the art research on drugs in many disease areas.  Internationally strong groups work on the genetics of disease, circulatory diseases, inflammation, kidney disease and endocrinology (hormone-related problems) (http://www.whri.qmul.ac.uk/research/index.html#cardiovascular ). The School of Medicine & Dentistry was rated fourth in the UK in the Research Assessment Exercise in 2008 (link to warden’s RAE paper on SMD website (www.qmul.ac.uk/docs/smd_rae.pdf ).