Current 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.