Introduction

The Victorian College of Pharmacy (a faculty of Monash University) has a proud record of education and research in the pharmaceutical sciences. It is one of Australia’s leading schools of pharmacy, offering professional qualifications and further education for the pharmacy profession, undergraduate and honours programs in formulation science and medicinal chemistry and research higher degrees.

The Victorian College of Pharmacy is located at the Parkville campus, in close proximity to other leading research organisations in the ‘Parkville strip’. It shares its premises with the Pharmacy Board of Victoria and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (Victorian Branch) Ltd, and has strong links with the national and international pharmaceutical industries and health research communities.

The college is an internationally recognised specialist centre in drug discovery and development: Australia’s first commercially successful drug for the global market, Relenza™, was developed here. In 2002, a new Centre for Drug Candidate Optimisation further expanded the college as a resource for industry.

There are four departments within the college: Pharmaceutics, Pharmacy Practice, Medicinal Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Biology. All departments are headed by internationally recognised research professors. Administration is managed through the Faculty Office.

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