Degree disciplines: Range of chemistry and biology disciplines

This area is key to both the discovery and development of new drugs. Here, we study how a drug is handled within the body. This is important for the selection of drug candidates during early to late discovery and the characterisation of the drug during pre-clinical and clinical development.

As a graduate in this area, you'll draw on a range of analytical techniques to measure drug concentrations in biological samples and construct pharmacokinetic profiles. This involves studying the metabolism of drugs in vitro and in vivo to identify the metabolites and the enzymatic processes involved.

It could be that you come to us from either a biological or chemical background - this area encompasses aspects of both. Either way, you'll be working with scientists from a variety of other disciplines including bioscience, chemistry, formulation science, toxicology and clinical.

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