Professor MacDonald James Christie
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Professor of Pharmacology
M02 - Mallet Street Campus
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Themes | Biographical details | Research interests | Grants | PhD & Masters' project opportunities | Keywords | Publications
Biographical details
Professor Christie completed a PhD at The University of Sydney in 1983. He was an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow in 1985 (NH&MRC), a Fogarty International Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1985-1987 and then Senior Research Associate at the Vollum Institute in Oregon, USA from 1987-1990. He was appointed as a tenured academic in the Department of Pharmacology, The University of Sydney in June 1990, where he was Head of Department from 1998-2000, full professor (personal chair) from 1999 and Medical Foundation Senior Principal Research Fellow from 1998-2002. He has been a NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow since 2003. He has served as Director of Basic Research at the Pain Management Research Institute (2003-2008) and Brain & Mind Research Institute (2009-2011) University of Sydney was appointed as Professor of Pharmacology in June 2011. [More...]
Research interests
Molecular, cellular, synaptic and behavioural mechanisms of opioid addiction and persistent pain states
PhD and Masters' project opportunities
Cellular mechanisms of opioid tolerance and dependence
Conopeptides as potential pain therapeutics
Current national competitive grants*
2011
Action-related learning and plasticity in the cortico-striatal network
Balleine B, Christie M
Australian Research Council Discovery Project ($360,000 over 3 years)
2010
Venom peptide modulators of pain pathways
Lewis R, Alewood P, Adams D, Christie M
NHMRC Program Grant/Shared Research Support ($1,510,500 over 5 years)
2008
Career Awards: Research Fellowship
Christie M
NHMRC Research Fellowships ($736,250 over 5 years)
* Grants administered through the University of Sydney
Keywords
Pain; Neurophysiology; Substance abuse and addiction; Cells and cell physiology; Neuropharmacology
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