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PHR2041Comprehensive care: Respiratory and gastrointestinal

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit provides the knowledge and skills required for the diagnosis and therapeutic management of patients with respiratory and gastrointestinal conditions. Specifically, the unit will cover respiratory diseases and disorders/conditions...

Semester 1MalaysiaParkville

BPS3031Computational drug design

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit introduces you to the key concepts and practical application of computational methods in chemistry and drug discovery. The unit will teach fundamental programming skills using the widely-used programming language Python and apply...

Semester 1MalaysiaParkville

MPS5302Contemporary pharmaceutical technologies

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

The objective of this laboratory-based unit is to provide you with practical, employment-relevant exposure to new technologies being adopted by the pharmaceutical sector. You will develop a systematic approach to experimentation that...

Semester 1MalaysiaParkville

MPS5305Design and manufacture of mRNA therapeutics

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit provides the opportunity to develop practical and computational capabilities across the design, optimisation and manufacture of mRNA medicines. You will gain experience with contemporary approaches used to design and evaluate...

WinterParkville

BPS3011Disease-focused pharmacology

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit will provide a solid grounding of knowledge as to how biological systems are affected in disease states, and how drugs can be designed to better treat these conditions. This unit builds on previous physiology and pharmacology...

Semester 1MalaysiaParkville

BPS2041Drug delivery and pharmacokinetics

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Choosing a suitable route of administration and dosage form for an active pharmaceutical ingredient is a critical step in drug development. It requires consideration of the physiological and physicochemical processes that govern the...

Semester 1MalaysiaParkville

MPS5103Drug design and optimisation

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit introduces you to pharmaceutical discovery and development, and the strategies used to optimise bioactive molecules into clinically useful drugs. The unit will discuss the sources of bioactive molecules and the approaches used to...

Semester 1MalaysiaParkville

BPS2042Drug development

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit will take you through the process of developing a drug candidate into a registered pharmaceutical product. This encompasses: pre-clinical development, including drug formulation based on the pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic and...

Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

BPS2022Drug discovery and design

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit will educate you on different approaches in drug discovery and design, using the typical pipeline of drug discovery and development as a foundation for your understanding. You will begin by examining how drug discovery and...

Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

MPS5204Drug discovery and development: The next step

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit takes you on a journey into real-life drug development challenges. The unit will utilise the target product profile (TPP) as the framework for exploring and understanding the challenges of translating a potential drug discovered...

Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

MPS5104Drug formulation, clinical trials and registration

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit will take you through the process of developing a drug candidate into a registered pharmaceutical product and beyond. Once a lead candidate has been identified, the drug development pathway encompasses drug formulation; clinical...

Semester 1MalaysiaParkville

MPS5201Drug stories: Lessons from the past and now

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit immerses you into real-life challenges and triumphs associated with drug discovery, using case studies of medicines from the nineteenth century through to COVID-19 vaccines. Working in groups and individually, you will develop a...

Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

MPS5203Experimental investigations: Learning from the lab

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit gives you direct experience of contemporary laboratory-based research in pharmaceutical science. You will observe and participate in a range of relevant activities sampling the gamut of skills required to be a successful and...

Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

GMD5003Financial and data management in global medicines development

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit prepares you to apply financial, analytical, and strategic principles across the full lifecycle of global medicines development. You will build skills in financial modeling, Excel, and generative AI; design and measure data...

Semester 2Parkville

PHR5161Foundation practice 1

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Foundation Practice 1 is undertaken during a period of supervised practice in the pharmacy internship year. The internship year is designed to provide intern pharmacists the opportunity to develop competence to practice as independent...

Semester 1Parkville

PHR5162Foundation practice 2

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Foundation Practice 2 is undertaken during a period of supervised practice in the pharmacy internship year. The internship year is designed to provide intern pharmacists the opportunity to develop competence to practice as independent...

Semester 2Parkville

MPS5202From ideas to medicines: Investigator perspectives

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit takes you into the minds of leading researchers in the pharmaceutical sciences to unravel the thinking that goes into transforming an idea into a clinically useful drug. From a series of recorded and live interviews and Q&A...

Semester 2MalaysiaParkville

PGC5116Geriatric disease state management

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Upon completing this unit, you will develop specialist knowledge and skills in the management of common medical syndromes affecting older people. The unit will focus on pharmacotherapeutics, medication-related problems and the role of...

Semester 1Parkville

GMD5002Global leadership in the pharmaceutical sciences

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This unit has been designed to stimulate your thinking about leadership within the pharmaceutical sciences and to foster a sense of responsibility for your personal and professional development. The unit will expose you to various...

Semester 1Parkville

GMD5005Global medicines development: Emerging topics in regulatory science

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

This foundational pharmaceutical science course will focus on global regulatory science priorities related to innovation in pharmaceutical product development. You will learn about current research aimed at modernizing toxicology,...

Semester 2Parkville