Research in the School of Pharmacy and Molecular Sciences

The school of Pharmacy and Molecular Science carries out research in the areas of pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics as well as immunology. The Centre for Comparative Genomics is housed primarily within the School. The school receives external funding from the Australian Research Council and National Health and Medical Research Council.

Research activities carried out by individual staff members can be found under their pages.

Facilities

Comprising the three disciplines of biochemistry & molecular biology, chemistry and pharmacy, the school has a number of reseach facilities:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Chemistry

  • Varian Mercury 300 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer (Contact: Assoc. Prof. Bruce Bowden),

  • Bruker SMART 1000 CCD single crystal X-ray diffractomer that is housed within the Advanced Analytical Centre. (Contact : Dr Murray Davies )

  • Nicolet Nexus 670/870 Infrared spectrometer (Contact: Dr Murray Davies)

  • JEOL JES-TE200 EPR spectrometer (continuous wave X-band) (Contact: Dr Brian McCool)

  • HP5890 Gas Chromatograph (contact: Dr Michael Ridd)

  • Varian CP-3800 GC coupled to a Varian 1200 L triple quadrupole Mass spectrometer (contact: Dr Michael Ridd) (Nb. LC-MS is also possible)

  • Cary 5E UV/vis/NIR spectrometer (contact: Prof. Richard.Keene)

  • CEM MARS express 5 microwave oven (Contact: Prof. George Meehan)

Pharmacy

  • Varian high pressure liquid chromatography

  • VK200 Tablet hardness machine

  • VK100 Tablet disintegrator

  • FRIABIL Friabilator

  • HAAKE Viscosity tester

  • Jenway 6304 UV/vis spectrometer

All pharmacy instruments contact Martina Mangan