Annual Poster Day takes place in City Hall

This week saw the annual School of Pharmacy Poster Day, that took place in Cardiff’s City Hall. Every year, final year students on the MPharm programme complete their own research project, where they get to learn about lab techniques and procedures, and data analysis spanning a broad range of areas from fundamental research through to pharmacy practice. At the culmination of the projects students showcase their results in a conference style setting through a series of posters.

This year projects encompassed the fields of Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Experimental Therapeutics, and Medicines Optimisation & Healthcare Outcomes. Poster day is an event that is always hugely anticipated by students and staff. It is an event where undergraduates are able to demonstrate real ownership for a piece of research and where staff, invited guests and students alike are able discuss scholarship issues at a more collegiate level.

Guests this year included Jamie Hayes, Director of the Welsh Medicines Resource Centre, Sarah Hiom of the Pharmacy Research Wales Steering Group, Andrew Sully, Principal Pharmacist in the Cardiff & Vale UHB, Owain Brookes who works as a Renal Pharmacist at Morriston Hospital, Kath Haynes and Robert Bracchi of the Welsh Analytical Prescribing Support Unit, and Ken Wann, an Honorary Professor at the School of Pharmacy.

Also in attendance to award a lay faculty prize were Ian Hill, Esther Howarth-Papp, and Alan Meudell. The lay faculty was set up to ensure public understanding of the science taking place in the School of Pharmacy is accessible and clear to a wider audience.

Following assessment, the best posters were awarded prizes. This year’s winners were Marianne Collins, Josana Hayes, Alliyah Sajid and Abbie Shaw.