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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Main Campus
Full Time
Apr 2026
3 Year
Our PhD/MPhil Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences programme enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Our areas of research within pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences include: development of novel nucleic acid-based diagnostics and therapeutics; modelling and simulation of pharmacokinetics, drug-drug interactions and pharmacodynamics in healthy virtual populations; modelling and simulation of pharmacokinetics, drug-drug interactions and pharmacodynamics in patient populations; analysis of inter-individual variability in drug metabolizing enzyme activity; optimal design of early phase clinical trials with new therapies and drug combinations; applications of systems biology approach to prediction of drug absorption, distribution and Elimination; extrapolation of in vitro data to predict in vivo pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics; applications of PKPD in drug development and therapeutics, particularly endocrinology, drug abuse, and paediatric pharmacology.
