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Postgraduate handbook 2005 - Pharmacy
Research profile
Leading-edge research is conducted within and collaboratively between the
faculty's four departments. The faculty enjoys close links with researchers in
other faculties of the university - notably Medicine and Science - as well as
other Australian and international universities, and the national and
international pharmaceutical industry and profession. The faculty's research
output is also sustained and strengthened by its longstanding commitment to
postgraduate training.
The faculty 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. High-quality
research facilities are available within all departments for students to
undertake graduate work in experimental and theoretical areas of the
pharmaceutical sciences.
Areas of research include:
- Pharmaceutics - drug delivery and formulation science: utilisation of the
transdermal route for the delivery of drugs, lipid-based formulation design,
intestinal lymphatic transport of drugs, factors affecting the absorption of
drugs across the intestinal mucosa, respiratory drug delivery, physicochemical
and analytical characterisations of new drug candidates, stability and
characterisation of protein drugs, absorption of protein drugs after
subcutaneous administration, contributions of intestinal and hepatic metabolism
to the bioavailability of drugs, powder mixing and content uniformity studies.
- Medicinal Chemistry - drug design and development (supported by
contributions in the fields of: computer-aided molecular design and
computational chemistry, NMR spectroscopy, protein chemistry and molecular
biology; syntheses and characterisation of bioactive molecules, x-ray
crystallography, and mass spectrometry).
- Pharmaceutical Biology and Pharmacology - drug addiction pharmacology,
prostate research group, neurotransmitter and second messenger systems, and
novel therapies using molecular biology approaches. A diversity of projects is
available in each of these research areas using the techniques of in-vivo and
in-vitro pharmacology, molecular pharmacology, biochemistry and physiology.
- Pharmacy Practice - quality use of medicines, pharmaceutical education
research, epidemiology and health economics, impact of drug-related morbidity,
practice models, wound management, and clinical pharmacokinetics.
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