Your Pharmacology offer

Congratulations on your offer to study Pharmacology at Lancaster.

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Offer Holder Events

Discover Lancaster University for yourself at one of our events exclusively for Pharmacology offer holders and their guests.

  • Saturday 8 February
  • Saturday 22 February
  • Saturday 15 March
  • Saturday 5 April

These events are a chance to experience our friendly and inclusive teaching environment first-hand. You’ll get to know our Biosciences team and current students through subject talks, taster sessions and informal chats over a complimentary lunch.

At your Offer Holder Event, you will:

  • Learn more about the structure of your degree and our approach to teaching and learning
  • Experience life as a Pharmacology student through a hands-on laboratory taster session
  • Have the opportunity to chat with current students and staff, and find out answers to any questions you may have

Once you have received an offer to study Pharmacology, you will be emailed a unique booking link to the email address used on your UCAS application. If you have any questions, or haven't received your personal booking link, please email us.

Welcome to the Biosciences

Students from across our Biosciences degree programmes show you what they love about their subjects, how Lancaster does the study of the 'Science of Life', and how their programmes give them hope for the future.

Why Lancaster?

In joining Lancaster, you will become a part of our Biosciences community in a highly ranked department (3rd in the UK for Biomedical Sciences, The Guardian University Guide 2025).

We’ve designed the content of our course to align with the British Pharmacological Society’s core curriculum. You'll cover a variety of topics including drug development, potential side effects and regulation, providing you with a deep understanding of how drugs interact with living systems and affect our bodies – something crucial to health in our society.

World-class facilities

Our teaching laboratories are at the centre of your degree. They are where you will put into practice, and test your knowledge, from lectures and tutorials; they are the place where you’ll learn to use the wide variety of equipment needed to understand the fundamentals of the science of life; they are where you’ll hone skills in working as a team, planning and running experiments, and where you’ll make lasting friendships with your fellow Biosciences students.

Research with impact

We talk a lot about ‘research-led teaching’ but what does that really mean? It means that the academics you will learn from, the people taking your labs and tutorials and standing at the front of the lecture theatres, are experts in their fields. Their research is shaping our understanding of the world and their work feeds into our degree programmes, ensuring that your education is informed by cutting-edge thinking.

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A career in the making

One of our degrees will give you the skills to pursue a career in your chosen area of the biosciences and will give you the transferable skills valued by a wide range of future employers. In addition to subject-specific knowledge you'll gain numerical, analytical and other transferrable skills required for scientific careers but equally applicable elsewhere.

Keep exploring

Dr Steve Hall, wearing a green lab coat in the teaching laboratory

Dr Steve Hall: how can pharmacology research improve the treatment of neglected tropical diseases?

My research focus is on the discovery and development of new drugs, drug combinations, and methods of drug delivery for the treatment of tissue destruction, known as necrosis, caused by certain snake venoms. Snakebite remains one of the most neglected of neglected tropical diseases, causing over 100,000 deaths and 400,000 permanent injuries every year; new treatments are needed, and I hope my research will help in the development of these.

My own research has shown some incredibly positive results and I am very optimistic that a new, multidrug-based therapy for snakebite will eventually become available and drastically improve the treatment of this devastating neglected tropical disease. In my opinion, it is absolutely a question of when, not if.

Dr Steve Hall, Lecturer in Pharmacology

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