Department of Pharmacology
The Department of Pharmacology of the University of Sydney is the largest of its kind in Australia, with an extensive range of research programs and well equipped undergraduate teaching facilities.
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Current News:
- We are advertising for an Associate Professor in Pharmacology, closing date 27th November
- Chiu Chin Ng received a Nagai Foundation Travel Award to enable her to travel to Fukuoka, Japan to present her poster on 'Effects of bilobalide, ginkgolide B and picrotoxinin on GABA-A receptor modulation' at the 2009 conference of the Asian Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Jasmine Henderson has been promoted to Associate Professor
- Renae Ryan and Rob Vandenberg, together A/Prof Kuyucak (Physics), have been awarded an ARC Discovery Grant on "Mechanism of glutamate transport from experimental and simulation studies" ($420,000 over 3 years).
- Slade Matthews has been awarded the University Co-operative Bookshop Excellence in Teaching and Community Award for 2009.
- Kong Li, together with Prof Stephen Simpson and Dr Gregory Sword from the School of Biological Sciences, have received $25,000 from the University's International Program Development Fund to continue their collaboration with Cambridge University on "Locust Swarming: From Neurochemistry to Mass Migration".
- Professor Mary O'Kane, NSW Chief Scientist, gave the 2009 Diana Temple Memorial Lecture on 22 October in Parliament House on "The advancement of the role of women in science"(Notice of lecture )
- Congratulations to A/Prof Robin Allan on his retirement and on his appointment as an Honorary Associate Professor. He joined the Department of Pharmacology in 1980 and enjoyed a distinguished career in teaching and research
