Academic staff

Professors

Carol Armour, PhD

Associate Dean, Career Development
Woolcock Institute of Medical Research
phone: +61 2 9114 0040
email: carol.armour@sydney.edu.au
Health services; Primary health care; Pharmacology; Asthma; Respiratory tract diseases
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Judith Black, AO, MB BS, PhD, FRACP

NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow
Woolcock Institute of Medical Research
phone: +61 2 9114 0342
email: judy.black@sydney.edu.au
Asthma pharmacology; human bronchus; smooth muscle culture; inflammation; signal transduction; protein kinase C; airway structure and function
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MacDonald Christie, PhD

M02 - Mallet Street Campus
phone: +61 2 9351 0899
email:
Mechanisms of novel pain therapeutics, neurobiology of opioid tolerance and dependence, opioid receptor regulatory mechanisms
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Christopher Liddle, BSc, MB BS, PhD, FRACP

Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Hepatology
Head, Clinical Pharmacology, Westmead Hospital
phone: +61 2 9845 6086
email:
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J Paul Seale, MB BS, PhD, FRACP FRCP

Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Deputy Director, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research
Room 301B, Blackburn Building
phone: +61 2 9351 6952
email: paul.seale@sydney.edu.au
Asthma; corticosteroids; neuropeptides; beta adrenoceptor agonists
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Robert Vandenberg, BSc (Hons), PhD

Head of Pharmacology
Room 210 Blackburn Building
phone: +61 2 9351 6734
email:
Molecular biology; pharmacology of glutamate transport; electrophysiology
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Associate Professor

Renae Ryan, BSc (Hons), PhD

NH&MRC CDA Fellow
Room 211 Blackburn Building
phone: +61 2 9351 2669
email: renae.ryan@sydney.edu.au
Biophysics of membrane transport; glutamate transport; glycine transport; structural studies of membrane proteins
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Senior Lecturers

Jonathon Arnold, BSc (Hons), PhD

Room 307 Bosch Building
phone: +61 2 9351 6954
email:
The endogenous cannabinoid system; the neurobiology of addiction, stress and anxiety; genetic differences; immediate early genes; behavioural neuropharmacology
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Elena Bagley, BPharm (Hons), PhD

Level 6 M02G Mallett St Campus
phone: +61 2 9351 0880
email:
Synaptic plasticity in (path)physiological processes, including endogenous opioid actions, development of chronic pain, and drug addiction
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Kellie Charles, BSc (Hons), PhD

Room 306 Blackburn Building
phone: +61 2 9036 5239
email: kellie.charles@sydney.edu.au
Cancer pharmacology, tumour - immune cell interactions, translational and clinical studies of new immunological agents
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Rachel Codd, BSc (Hons), PhD

Room 274 Blackburn Building
phone: +61 2 9351 6738
email: rachel.codd@sydney.edu.au
Prokaryotic iron-uptake mechanisms; protein/small molecule purification, metalloglycomics, EPR spectroscopy.
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Hilary GE Lloyd, BSc, MSc, PhD

Room 222, Bosch Building
phone: +61 2 9351 2836
email: hilary.lloyd@sydney.edu.au
Neurotransmitter release mechanisms; neuroprotection; protein phosphatases; adenosine; excitatory amino acids; inflammatory mediator release; apoptosis; dopamine; schizophrenia; stroke
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Brent E McParland, BSc (Hons), MSc (Hons), PhD

Room 304/305 Blackburn Building
phone: +61 2 9036 6477
email: brent.mcparland@sydney.edu.au
Asthma pharmacology; human bronchus; smooth muscle; airway structure, function and mechanics
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Margie Sunde, BSc (Hons), PhD

Room 223 Blackburn Building
phone: +61 2 9351 6955
email: margaret.sunde@sydney.edu.au
Amyloid; infection and immunity; biochemistry; Alzheimer's disease
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Lecturers

Heidi Fedorow, BSc (Hons), PhD

0.5 FTE
Room 211D Bosch Building
phone +61 2 9036 9408
email
Parkinson's disease & neurodegenerative disorders, melanin pigments, lipids.
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Tina Hinton, BSc (Hons), PhD, Grad Dip Sci

0.6 FTE
Room 294 Blackburn Building
phone +61 2 9351 6208
email: tina.hinton@sydney.edu.au
GABAergic neurotransmission in the CNS; GABAergic mechanisms in schizophrenia, antipsychotic drug effects on GABA receptors
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Slade Matthews, BMedSc (Hons), DipEd, PhD

Room 214 Blackburn Building
phone: +61 2 9351 6200
email: slade.matthews@sydney.edu.au
Machine learning applied to biomedical data, complexity analysis and animal toxicology
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Lenka Munoz, PharmD, PhD

Room 217 Blackburn Building
phone: +61 2 9351 2315
email:
Inflammation in brain tumour microenvironment and Alzheimer's disease, kinases & kinase inhibitors, drug discovery

Associate Lecturer

Lauren O'Mullane BBioMedSc, PhD

Room 204, Bosch Building
phone: +61 2 9351 6957
email:
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