Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Entry requirements

We require applicants to hold, or be about to obtain, an Upper Second class Honours degree (or overseas equivalent) in a related subject area for entry to a PhD programme. A Lower Second class Honours degree may be considered if applicants also hold a Master's degree with a Merit classification.

Months of entry

January, April, September

Course content

Our PhD/MPhil Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences programme enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Our areas of research within pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences include:

• Development of novel nucleic acid-based diagnostics and therapeutics;

• Modelling and simulation of pharmacokinetics, drug-drug interactions and pharmacodynamics in healthy virtual populations;

• Modelling and simulation of pharmacokinetics, drug-drug interactions and pharmacodynamics in patient populations;

• Analysis of inter-individual variability in drug metabolizing enzyme activity;

• Optimal design of early phase clinical trials with new therapies and drug combinations;

• Applications of systems biology approach to prediction of drug absorption, distribution and Elimination;

• Extrapolation of in vitro data to predict in vivo pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics;

• Applications of PKPD in drug development and therapeutics, particularly endocrinology, drug abuse, and paediatric pharmacology.