Research Groups
The Department strongly supports research with all staff being involved in high-calibre state-of-the-art research involving diverse areas of pharmacology, in many cases in collaboration with Australian and/or International colleagues in academia and in industry.
Our current major research topics include:
- Vascular Biology and Immunopharmacology
- Drug Discovery Biology
- Integrative Cardiovascular Pharmacology
- Venoms and Toxins
- Fibrosis Laboratory
- Oxidant and Inflammation Biology Group
Our laboratories cover all major technologies of modern biomedical sciences with unique strengths in drug discovery:
- Protein chemistry
- Cell biology and cell-based assays
- Integrated biology (in vivo and in vitro)
- Genetically-defined disease models in animals
- Confocal microscopy
- Computerized molecular modeling
- Laser microdissection
