School of Pharmacy

I joined the School of Pharmacy in 2008. Following a PhD and post-doctoral work in pharmacology at Cambridge, I completed my post-doctoral training at the University of Virginia, USA. Following several years leading drug discovery programs in industry (Johnson & Johnson, Belgium and OSI pharmaceuticals, Oxford) I returned to academic research at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. At Keele, I lead teaching of pharmacology including option topics focusing on oncology molecular therapeutics. I also make teaching contributions to the School of Life Sciences and the School of Medicine. I am currently third year tutor. My research interests focus on discovering new therapeutic targets and drugs for the treatment of ovarian cancer. I have received funding from charities and research councils.

Research

• For details of my research into the treatment of ovarian cancer, please visit my laboratory web page: http://www.keele.ac.uk/istm/staff/richardsonalan/

Education

• Together with Luke Bracegirdle, I have developed "KUiz" a tool to allow academic staff to create rapidly a quiz for students that can be viewed on a smartphone or PC. For details please visit http://www.kuiz.co.uk/
• I use the Keele KAVE to teach molecular pharmacology in a 3D virtual environment, and I have shown that this improves student learning (in press, American Journal of Pharmacy Education).
• I have led the development of a synoptic assessment that allows students to integrate and entire year's learning (manuscript in preparation).
• I have developed an inexpensive method for simulating drug-receptor interactions in a classroom (manuscript submitted for publication).