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Research opportunities for students

• Summer Studentships
• Bachelor of Science (hons), Master of Science, Master of Audiology, Master of Health Science programmes
• PhD projects

Specific areas of research interest

Most of the department's research is a team effort involving people working together in research groups. These groups may also include members from other departments within the School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, and the greater University. Research is funded from a range of funding boards and organisations.

Find out about our Research groups

Find out about our sources of Funding

Research groups within the department focus on:

• Anticancer drugs
• Clinical trial simulation
• Disease progress and drug action
• Gene therapy (New therapies for brain disease)
• Neural repair and neurogenesis
• Placental drug transport and metabolism
• Receptor signalling laboratory
• Respiratory pharmacology
• Human neurodegeneration research
• Toxicology

The Department also houses the Discovery-1 high throughput and high content screening machine.

Discovery-1

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