Potential Research Projects - Overview
Within the Pharmacometrics Area
Within the Pharmacy Education Area
Within the Quality Use of Medicines Area
- Adherance and its relationship to patient beliefs towards their medicines
(Mr Neil Cottrell)
- Administration and adherence to paediatric medicine regimens
(Dr Therese Kairuz)
- Cognitive services in pharmacy - developing new roles for pharmacists e.g. pharmacist prescribing
(A/Prof. Lisa Nissen)
- Drug usage evaluation - influencing prescription medication use across jurisdictional boundaries (eg. hospital/community; public/private) using multi-disciplinary teams
(Professor Sue Tett)
- Drug utilisation and pharmaco-epidemiology in Australia
(Dr Therese Kairuz)
- Factors affecting prescribing and use of medicines, including the influence of various marketing strategies (eg. free prescription medicines samples), the influence of location (eg. rural, remote) and issues around consumer motivation and choice
(Professor Sue Tett)
- International comparisons of medicines use, investigating pharmaceutical policy and other influences on usage
(Professor Sue Tett)
- Key influences on the safe and effective prescribing and use of medicines
(A/Prof. Lisa Nissen)
- Modifying solid dosage forms for patients with difficulties swallowing their medications: Quality use of medicines issues
(A/Prof. Lisa Nissen and Dr Kathryn Steadman)
- Patient compliance and perceptions of prescribed medicines
(Dr Therese Kairuz)
Within the Therapeutic Targeting Area
- Approaches to therapeutic targeting of MYB in leukaemia and other cancers
(Prof. Tim Gonda)
- Bioanalysis, bioavailability and disposition of phytochemicals from tropical fruits
(Prof. Nick Shaw , Dr Amitha Hewavitharana and Professor Mike Gidley)
- Biomolecular quantitation in LC-MS-MS: investigation of factors affecting accuracy
(Prof. Nick Shaw and Dr Amitha Hewavitharana)
- Calcium homeostasis in cancer: identification and characterization of novel drug targets
(Prof. Greg Monteith)
- Caveolae and angiogenesis
(Dr Marie-Odile Parat)
- Caveolin-1, calcium and lactation
(Dr Marie-Odile Parat, Prof. Greg Monteith and Prof. Sarah Roberts-Thomson)
- Caveolin-1 phosphorylation and cancer
(Dr Marie-Odile Parat)
- Charged liposaccharide based drug delivery systems
(Prof. Istvan Toth)
- Compounding and compounded medicines: issues and quality
(A/Prof. Kathryn Steadman and A/Prof. Lisa Nissen)
- Controlling delivery of small molecule drugs and biopharmaceuticals from microporous polymer matrices
(A/Prof. Allan Coombes)
- Design, synthesis and evaluation of novel molecules for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease
(Dr Ben Ross)
- Development and application of high-throughput functional gene-based screening
(Prof. Tom Gonda)
- Development of novel reducible gene delivery systems
(Dr Harendra [Harry] Parekh)
- Diabetic neuropathy: mechanistic studies
(Prof. Maree Smith)
- Evoluation of novel analgesic agents for the relief of neuropathy pain
(Prof. Maree Smith)
- Gene delivery systems
(Prof. Istvan Toth)
- Gene delivery therapeutics for age-related macular degeneration
(Dr Harendra [Harry] Parekh)
- Identification and characterization of novel ion and drug transporters and the design of novel high throughput screening assays for new pharmaceuticals
(Prof. Greg Monteith)
- Identification and functional characterisation of MYB target genes
(Prof. Tom Gonda)
- Improving medicines and vaccine performance using micro and nanotechnologies
(A/Prof. Allan Coombes)
- Mammary gland development and lactation: Calcium transport
(Prof. Sarah Roberts-Thomson)
- Medicinal and Biomolecular chemistry of Alzeimer's disease
(Dr Ben Ross)
- Modifying solid dosage forms: effects on therapeutic outcomes
(A/Prof. Kathryn Steadman and A/Prof. Lisa Nissen)
- Molecular approaches for breast cancer research
(Prof. Sarah Roberts-Thomson)
- Morphine and cell migration
(Dr Marie-Odile Parat)
- Myeloid leukaemia gene discovery
(Prof. Tom Gonda)
- Novel immunoadjuvants for vaccine delivery
(Prof. Istvan Toth)
- Painful diabetic neuropathy: towards improved drug treatments
(Prof. Maree Smith)
- Peripheral mechanisms of analgesia and the involvement of the immune system
(Dr Peter Cabot)
- Pharmaceutical chemistry of prodrugs: Design, synthesis & evaluation
(Dr Ben Ross)
- Physiological regulation and the role of calcium transporters
(Prof. Greg Monteith)
- Pituri: the chemistry of Australian Nicotiana species chewed for nicotine
(A/Prof. Kathryn Steadman, Dr Ross Norris, Dr Fiona Bogossian)
- Plant biotechnology for pharmaceutical production
(A/Prof. Kathryn Steadman)
- Plant-derived bioactives: targeted delivery using modern techniques
(A/Prof. Kathryn Steadman and Dr Harendra [Harry] Parekh)
- Plant proteins as drug delivery polymers
(A/Prof. Kathryn Steadman)
- Quantitation of markers of oxidative stress using LC-MS-MS
(A/Prof Jeff Coombes, Prof. Nick Shaw and Dr Amitha Hewavitharana)
- Regulation of MYB expression by transcriptional elongation: mechanism and potential for targeting in cancer
(Prof. Tom Gonda)
- Role of MYB in human breast cancer
(Prof. Tom Gonda)
- Screening of marine bacteria for antibiotics and novel drugs
(Dr Amitha Hewavitharana, Prof. Nick Shaw and A/Prof J. Fuerst)
- Soft tissue engineering: nerves and blood vessels
(A/Prof. Allan Coombes)
- Studies of xenobiotic metabolism and small molecule biomarkers using LC-MS-MS
(Prof. Nick Shaw , Dr Amitha Hewavitharana and Dr Peter Cabot)
- Study of the metabolism of opioid peptides using LC/MS/MS and the role of opioid metaboites in inflammatory disease
(Prof. Nick Shaw , Dr Amitha Hewavitharana and Dr Peter Cabot)
- Synthesis and application of dendrimers in RNAi
(Dr Harendra [Harry] Parekh)
