Leading-edge research is conducted within and collaboratively between the college's four departments of Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Biology and Pharmacology, Pharmaceutics, and Pharmacy Practice. The college enjoys close links with researchers in faculties - notably Medicine and Science - of the university, in other universities in Australia and internationally, and with the national and international pharmaceutical industry and the pharmacy profession. The college's research output is also sustained and strengthened by its longstanding commitment to postgraduate training.
The college benchmarks its research effort against the best pharmacy schools
in the United States and the United Kingdom. It measures the quality of its
research output in terms of the standing of its researchers, the level of
funding attracted, publications in refereed scholarly journals, patent
applications lodged, and the calibre of its research graduates.
Among the areas of research excellence at the Victorian College of Pharmacy
are, generically:
* The most promising of several emerging research strengths at the college are:
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