Research

Our research brings together experts across a wide range of health science and related disciplines to improve our use of current therapies whilst developing new ones for the future. Our multidisciplinary research spans research from fundamental science underpinning health and disease through to clinical practice.

Our research drives identification, development, and delivery of therapeutics, with particular expertise in nucleic acid structure, glycobiology, structure determination, and drug delivery.

The specific disease focus for our work includes treatments for cancer and infectious disease, transmucosal and transdermal drug delivery, and novel vaccine formulation.

Our additional engineering capability enables the design of low-cost, rapid diagnostics for infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance.

Read more about our research into drug delivery

We use a wide range of models to explore fundamental processes in health and disease, identify drug targets, and test candidate therapies.

Focus areas are informed by cardiovascular, neuroscience, and stem cell expertise and include cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative and neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy, pain, inflammation, and snakebite venom toxicology.

We also generate therapeutically relevant antibodies, including llama ‘nanobodies’ to help fight COVID-19.

Find out how we are helping to combat deaths from snakebites

Our work aims to improve the use of existing therapies by patients and practitioners in a range of settings, and the continuing professional development of pharmacists.

Using expertise in a range of research methods, specific projects explore issues in medicines reuse and safety, medicines management, adherence and prescribing, including associated beliefs and behaviours.

Particular areas of focus include antimicrobial resistance, dementia, mental health, and obesity.

Discover how Dr Mark Dallas' research is helping to fight dementia