Research Overview
Research in the discipline of pharmacology addresses leading-edge research such as design of DNA binding drugs for treatment of cancer; the role of neurochemicals in regulating feeding as an insight into potential treatments for obesity and other feeding disorders; and identifying novel targets for future anti-epileptic drugs.
The list of the Pharmacology Research Laboratories provide links to further information about activities undertaken.
Research techniques employed by research groups within the discipline of pharmacology include:
- Atomic force microscopy
- DNA microarrays
- Functional smooth muscle pharmacology
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography
- Immunohistochemistry
- Mass Spectroscopy
- Molecular modelling
- Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
- Radioligand binding
- Mediator PCR and RT-PCR
- Spectrophotometry
- X-ray crystallography
- Yeast expression systems