Sarah Bailey

Dr. Sarah Bailey currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath. My research focuses on understanding molecular mechanisms underlying depression and anxiety. Following a Wellcome Trust Advanced Training Fellowship in 1999?2002 at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, I returned to the University of Bristol as a lecturer in the School of Medical Sciences, before moving to Bath in 2005. In my job I teach pharmacology and neuroscience, including in vivo skills training in behavioural psychopharmacology, to pharmacy and pharmacology students. I am also chair of our Animal Researchers Committee at the University of Bath. Dr. Sarah have been an enthusiastic member of BAP for more than 10 years and have attended and contributed to almost every annual meeting since joining. I enjoy the friendliness of the BAP and the stimulating mixture of clinical, preclinical and industrial contributions to meetings. The BAP is an important forum for psychopharmacology. I think the BAP can promote further opportunities to strengthen the networking opportunities within the association to provide a source of expertise for all; for example, in relation to in vivo training for the next generation of psychopharmacology researchers and support for developing new translational models. The growth and development of skills and expertise pertaining to behavioural neuropharmacology are essential to the UK maintaining and developing its preeminent place in psychopharmacology. The BAP’s Certificate in Non-Clinical Psychopharmacology plays an important role in this regard and I have contributed to teaching the certificate.