When you join us for your doctorate in Pharmacology, you'll join a high-calibre research community.
Pharmacy and Pharmacology at the University of Auckland continues to be ranked in the top 30 worldwide, and 3rd in Australasia (QS World University Rankings).
The Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences is New Zealand’s leading provider of tertiary education in the health field and the country’s largest centre for medical and biomedical research.
You will have access to high-quality modern research and laboratory facilities.
As well as undertaking high quality research in a well-supported environment, the Department provides opportunities to publish papers, attend international conferences, and develop your networks in academia and industry.
Areas of research interest range from fundamental research on diseases to identify potential drug targets, through computer modelling for hit discovery, preclinical models for drug activity and toxicity, to work with patients.
- Molecular basis of disease (Poulsen) and human neurodegeneration (Dragunow)
- Neural reprogramming and repair (Young)
- Protein structure and the molecular basis of drug action (Flanagan, Grimsey)
- New therapies for brain diseases (Connor, Dragunow, Young, Park, McCaughey-Chapman)
- Receptor signalling and disease (Grimsey)
- Preclinical pharmacology for anticancer drugs (Flanagan, Jamieson, Tingle, Park)
- Drug metabolism and toxicology (Tingle)
- Clinical pharmacology including cancer clinical trials, paediatric pharmacology and drugs used during surgery (Hannam, Holford, McKeage, Tingle)
- Disease progression and drug action (Hannam, Holford)
- Neurodegenerative blood biomarkers (Cawston)