Seminars

• Seminar Program for First Semester 2012 (PDF)

Latest news

• Des Richardson was awarded the Sydney Medical School Award for Exceptional Performance by General Staff at the Celebratory Dinner on 29th March. Des has been a member of the Discipline of Pharmacology since 1971 and has made an immeasurable contribution to the teaching and research of our Discipline over this time. Congratulations Des and thank you for all that you do!
• Professor Peter Carroll has written an interesting article "Is high-dose vitamin use safe?" which was published in the April edition of the Australian Journal of Pharmacy.
• Congratulations to Rosemary Cater (Transporter Biology Group) on receiving a University of Sydney Honours Scholarship ($6000) and the 2011 Roland Thorp Prize for merit in senior Pharmacology.
• Congratulations to David Krimmer and Alan Scarf on the award of their PhD and Adena Spiro on the award of her MPhil.
• Congratulations to Dr. Margie Sunde and the Protein Biophysics Group on their paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA.
  Macindoe I, Kwan AH, Ren Q, Morris VK, Yang W, Mackay JP, Sunde M. Self-assembly of functional, amphipathic amyloid monolayers by the fungal hydrophobin EAS. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2012 Jan 23.
• Congratulations to Vanessa Morris (Protein Biophysics Group) and Ben McIlwain (Transporter Biology Group) who won poster prizes at the 2012 Lorne Protein Conference.
• Congratulations to Amelia Edington (Transporter Biology Group) who recently won an ATA Scientific Travel Award, was awarded a Royal Society of NSW Scholarship and was a finalist for the Sydney Protein Group Thompson Prize.
• Congratulations to Vanessa Morris (Protein Biophysics Group) who won a poster prize at the 2011 Australian and New Zealand Magnetic Resonance Meeting conference and was also a finalist for the Sydney Protein Group Thompson Prize.
• Congratulations to Amanda Scopelitti (Transporter Biology Group)who was awarded the Best Oral Presentation by a Postgraduate Student at the 2011 Bosch Institute Young Investigator Symposium.
• Discipline of Pharmacology Grant Success!
  Congratulations to Brian Oliver ($391, 076) and Janette Burgess ($432, 568) who both received NHMRC Career Development Fellowships; Rob Vandenberg and Renae Ryan who received an NHMRC project grant ($253, 086); Margie Sunde who received an ARC Discovery Grant ($290, 000) and Rachel Codd and Jonathon Arnold who were part of a group that was awarded an ARC LEIF grant toward the purchase of a new HPLC system which will be housed in Pharmacology ($150, 000).
• We are pleased to announce the appointment of four new members of staff; Professor MacDonald Christie, Dr. Elena Bagley, Dr. Margie Sunde and Dr. Lenka Munoz. We are very excited to have our new staff on board and anticipate they will have a long and productive association with the Discipline of Pharmacology.
• Congratulations to Elena Bagley and Mac Christie on their paper "Drug-induced GABA transporter currents enhance GABA release and produce opioid withdrawal behaviours" that was accepted for publication in the prestigious journal, Nature Neuroscience.