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Discipline of Pharmacology
Frome Road
Level 5, Medical School North Building
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005
AUSTRALIA
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Telephone: +61 8 8303 5571
Facsimile: +61 8 8224 0685

Prospective Postgraduate Students

Projects on offer:

Pharmacological strategies to attenuate opioid-induced hyperalgesia. (Prof Jason White, Prof Andrew Somogyi)
Pharmacogenetics of opioids. (Prof Jason White, Prof Andrew Somogyi)
Human biomarkers of pain. (Prof Paul Rolan, Prof Jason White, Prof Andrew Somogyi)
Health effects of stimulants and “party drugs”. (Dr Rod Irvine, Prof Jason White )

Welcome to our postgrad page

We thought the best way to describe to you what postgrad study within the Discipline of Pharmacology is all about is to tell you about us – the current postgrads! Here you can read about where we have come from, the kinds of projects we are involved in, and where postgraduate study in Pharmacology can take you.

For more information about us individually, you can visit our personal pages, or visit the Current news pages to see what we’ve been up to lately.

If you have any more questions, or would like to talk to someone about opportunities for postgrad study in Pharmacology, drop us an email or call to make an appointment.

Who we are:

Postgraduate students in the Discipline of Pharmacology come from very diverse backgrounds, including physiology, biotech, psychology, pharmacy, chemistry, medicine and nursing. Our research areas are just as diverse, and may be laboratory based or clinical, and may even involve a combination of these.

Where we end up:

Postgraduate study in Pharmacology can lead to many exciting opportunities. Just as our backgrounds and research projects are varied, so are the paths that we can take following postgraduate study and beyond.
During the course of a PhD, a postgraduate student has the opportunity to travel to international conferences to present their findings and to visit international research institutes. This provides an excellent opportunity to meet fellow researchers and respected leaders in the field, and to secure postdoctoral fellowships overseas. Many PhD graduates from Pharmacology have followed this course, and secured positions all over the world, including Europe, the United Kingdom and the USA. Recently, one of our PhD graduates was awarded the prestigious CJ Martin Fellowship to carry out research in Germany.

Other graduates choose to stay in Australia, and have many career options available, including work within both the public and private sector, working in research laboratories or institutes, postdoctoral fellowships and lectureships, and positions in a clinical setting.

For more information on possible careers, visit our careers page.

Scholarships held:

There are many scholarships that postgraduate students within the Discipline of Pharmacology may be eligible for. Our postgraduate students have won many scholarships, including the National Health and Medical Research Council Dora Lush Postgraduate Research Scholarship, the Royal Adelaide Hospital Dawes Scholarship, the Australian Postgraduate Award (APA), as well as University of Adelaide scholarships. For more information about scholarships that may be available to you, visit University of Adelaide Postgraduate Scholarships.