Our research is organised into five research themes that reflect the full drug discovery, drug development and medicine use pipeline, supporting translational research from fundamental science to improved patient care.
Our multidisciplinary research explores disease mechanisms and drug targets, using approaches from molecular biology to whole-animal physiology to advance drug discovery and therapeutic development.
We focus on medicinal chemistry for drug discovery. Our strengths are in structure-based drug design and synthetic medicinal chemistry, which applies the principles and techniques of chemistry to the discovery and development of compounds to prevent, treat or cure disease.
We are an innovative, collaborative research centre that provides ADME lead optimisation advice and support for emerging drug-discovery programs within biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and not-for-profit research institutes.
Our overarching goal is to develop next-generation drug-delivery systems and regimens that can markedly improve patient treatment. Our research programs are both fundamental and applied, and we have technical expertise in drug-delivery science, biopharmaceutics and PK/PD.
Our ultimate goal is to optimise the safe and effective use of medicines through our expertise in health services, pharmacometrics, pharmacotherapy, health economics and pharmacoepidemiology.
