School of Medicine and Pharmacology

• Four units, three sites– Pharmacology and Anaesthesiology, QEII– Medicine at RPH, QEII, Fremantle

• One of UWAs largest Schools• 70+ post graduate students• High publication output

Anaesthesiology & Pain Management

Drug Design & Development Neuropharmacology & Neuropsychiatric genetics

Respiratory Pharmacology

Toxicology &Biotransformation

Immunopharmacology & Macrophage biology

Pharmacology and Anaesthesiology Unit, SMP

Stephan Schug Michael Paech Thomas Ledowski

Vimal Kapoor Matt Martin-Iverson Sibylle Schwab

Lynette Fernandes E/Prof Ken Ilett Fiona Pixley

Peter Henry Phil Burcham David Joyce

Six major areas of Research Interest

SCGH Unit of the SMP

Oncology – Prof M Milward, Prof A Nowack

Cardiovascular – Prof J Hung, Assoc Prof B McQuillan

Bone and Mineral Group – Prof R Prince, Assoc Prof K Zhu, Assoc Prof S Wilson

Medical education research – Prof F Lake

Respiratory – Prof P Thompson (LIWA), Prof Gary Lee

SCGH Unit of the SMP

Tumour Immunology Group – Prof B Robinson, Prof A Nowack, Assoc Prof R Lake, Dr J Creaney, Dr A Currie, Dr S Fisher

Organ Transplant and Hepatology Immunopathology group – Prof G Jeffrey, Prof L Delriviere, Prof N Swanson, Prof G Waneck, Assoc Prof L Adams, Assoc Prof N Boudville

Fremantle Unit - Current research groups• Tim Davis

– Diabetes and Malaria/Tropical infectious diseases• David Bruce

– Diabetes and Dementia• John Olynyk

– Liver disease• Debbie Trinder

– Iron metabolism• Ian Lawrance Callum Pearce

– Inflammatory bowel disease• Jane Allan

– Viral infections• Bu Yeap

– Testosterone and Diabetes/Vascular disease

Endocrinology, Lipid Disorders, Obesity

• Hugh Barrett

• John Burnett

• Dick Chan

• Gerard Chew

• Seng Khee Gan

• Esther Ooi

• Bronwyn Stuckey

• Gerald Watts

Geriatrics (WACHA) RPH

Investigators:

Chris Beer

Leon Flicker

RPH unit

Hypertension, Nutrition, Obesity, Lifestyle

Investigators:• Anne Barden• Lawrie Beilin• Kay Cox• Kevin Croft• Jonathan Hodgson• Emilie Mas• Trevor Mori• Julie Proudfoot• Ian Puddey• Natalie Ward

Respiratory Medicine

Investigators:• Grant Waterer

• Yuben Moodley

Rheumatology

Investigators:Helen Keen

Unit Resources

• Clinical Trials Unit• Biomedical Mass Spectrometry

Unit– GC-MS– LC-MS Triple-quad

• Systems Biology and Biostatistics Unit

• Metabolic and Nutrition Research Centres

• Cardiovascular Imaging and Genetics Facility

Collaboration- case study

• Establish novel or unique techniques/methods

• Mass spectrometry– Biomarkers of oxidative stress– Eicosanoids– Stable isotope turnover studies– Targeted metabolomics– Fatty acid metabolism

• UWA collaborations– Jeff Keelan, Karen Simmer, School

of Women’s and Infants Health– Brendan Waddell, Anatomy and

Human Biology– Susan Prescott, SPACH– Debbie Trinder, SMP– Bu Yeap, SMP– Leon Adams, SMP– Peter Henry, SMP– Peter Arthur, BBCS– Allan McKinley, BBCS

National and International collaborations biomedical mass spectrometry unit