Pharmaceutical Chemistry

The go-to reference for our foundation year students and new MPharm students! […] Being written in such an integrated manner, it fits very nicely to support the integrated delivery of pharmacy as favoured by the GPhC and, perhaps more importantly, it delivers a much richer experience to the reader. * Dr Mark Hewitt, University of Wolverhampton *The preface with the learning objectives is a very good innovation as it sets in context what the reader would be expected to encounter as they negotiate the narrative. The guides that relate back to earlier chapters are helpful, reminding the reader that the topics should not necessarily be considered in isolation. The readers’ understanding can be gauged in the self-check sections and encapsulating key points in the boxes is also very helpful. * Dr Don Green, London Metropolitan University *

Dr Chris Rostron (editor) graduated in Pharmacy from Manchester University and completed a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry at Aston University. He gained Chartered Chemist status in 1975. He is now an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University. He was a member of the Academic Pharmacy Group Committee of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and chairman for 5 years. He was chairman of the Academic Pharmacy Forum and deputy chair of the Education Expert Advisory Panel of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. He has been an external examiner in Medicinal Chemistry at a number of Schools of Pharmacy both in the UK and abroad. In 2008, he was awarded honorary membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain for services to Pharmacy education.

Dr Jill Barber (editor) studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and completed a PhD in Bio-organic Chemistry at the same university in 1980. She then spent five years in some of the oldest universities in Europe, learning Biochemistry, German and Renaissance Music. She settled in Manchester in 1986, with a permanent position in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, where her research focuses on drugs that inhibit protein synthesis and she teaches chemotherapy and its underlying chemistry and biochemistry. She has published several teaching-related research papers about the factors influencing student success.