Working with industry

Pharmacy as a subject has a natural inclination towards industry. Some of our pharmacy graduates will be employed in industry and the constituent disciplines of pharmacy (pharmacology, pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, and pharmacy practice) are heavily represented in industry.

In consequence, the Reading School of Pharmacy has fostered links with industry, from the big Pharma to SME's, and is keen to increase these links.Our current links with Industry include contracts, grants and studentships. Recent contracts and grants have been with GE Health Care, Pfizer, UCB and GW Pharmaceuticals. We have studentships fully paid by industry and we have been very successful in attracting part sponsorship for studentships as well as those with BBSRC on the CASE scheme.  Links here include AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GSK, Pfizer, UCB, Oxoid, Stiefel.

Our staff also provide expert advice as consultants to industry.

Internally, staff have been successful in obtaining support from the Higher Education Innovation Fund for early stage ideas in developing technologies.

We are keen to expand links with Industry using the schemes outlined above.We are also keen to set up Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP). If you would like to work with us, please contact the Director of Enterprise, Professor Philip Strange.