School of Pharmacy

Seminar Series

The School of Pharmacy Seminar Series involves regular formal presentations of high-quality scholarly work with broad appeal.

The wider School community is invited to attend, including academic and professional staff, special guests, visitors, as well as HDR, postgraduate, masters and honours students.

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Associate Professor Sumaira Hasnain & Associate Professor Emma Hamilton-Williams

25 October 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Join Associate Professor Sumaira Hasnain & Associate Professor Emma Hamilton-Williams as they discuss their respective topics "Resolution of Stress in Chronic Disease" and "New approaches for type 1 diabetes treatment and prevention".
Professor Chamindie Punyadeera

Saliva Diagnostics and Liquid biopsy: realizing precision medicine in chronic disease and cancer management - Professor Chamindie Punyadeera

30 August 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Precision medicine is revolutionizing cancer diagnosis and treatment. Saliva diagnostics, spotlighted during the Covid-19 pandemic, due to its non-invasive nature and the ability to collect multiple samples even from people living in rural and remote communities.
Dr Kristie Weir

Deprescribing, decision-making and communication: An international perspective - Dr Kristie Weir

24 May 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Kristie Weir, a research fellow at the University of Sydney School of Public Health provides an overview of her research portfolio which has diverse methodologies including multi-country surveys, experimental studies, typologies, and intervention development.
Dr Adi Idris

Developing RNA-based therapeutics against emerging respiratory viruses - Dr Adi Idris, School of Biomedical Sciences, QUT

18 April 2024 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Adi Idris from the School of Biomedical Sciences, QUT, discusses how RNA biologics are now emerging as realistic and achievable clinically translatable treatment modalities for a range of human diseases. Importantly, respiratory viruses are amenable to gene therapy-based targeting.

The Expanding Roles of Pharmacists in Research, Patient Care, and Public Health and Its Impact on Pharmacy Education – The UCSF Perspective

28 September 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Presented by Prof Sharon Youmans from The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Pharmacy; this seminar focuses on the way pharmacy education must respond and transform to prepare pharmacists to address 21st century healthcare needs of our communities; from the molecule to the bedside and beyond.
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Dr Seth Cheetham - The limitless potential of mRNA drugs

7 March 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Trace the history of mRNA drugs, the capabilities of UQ’s BASE mRNA facility and novel applications of mRNA technologies with Dr Seth Cheetham from the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

Professor Sid Patanwala - Using pharmacy practice to drive research in emergency and critical care

28 October 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Nagham Ailabouni and Dr Jared Miles

14 October 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Nathalie Bock - Bioengineered microtissue models as drug testing platforms for cancer research

7 October 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Snehlata Kumari - NF-kB and cell death signalling pathways: key regulators of skin inflammation

23 September 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Esther W.Y. Chan - Application of big data research in the evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine safety

16 September 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Craig Munns - Management of Paediatric Bone Disorders: New Evidence and New Therapies

26 August 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Amirali Popat - Overcoming biological barriers using precision nanomedicine – My story and the importance of collaboration in Drug Delivery Science

12 August 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Rink-Jan Lohman and Dr Karnaker Reddy Tupally - Design and development of novel, short, stable dynorphin-based opioid agonists for safer analgesic therapy

17 June 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Joy Wolfram - Extracellular vesicles for therapeutic and diagnostic applications

3 June 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Terry Hebert - Tracking disease-relevant signalling events- from the single cell to the living brain

27 May 2022 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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Professor Nina Barnett - A person-centred approach to pharmacy practice

20 May 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Larisa Labzin - Inflammation in acute respiratory viral infections (COVID-19 and Influenza)

6 May 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Iman Azimi - Targeting calcium signalling pathways in brain cancer and cellular ageing

29 April 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Joanna Harnett - Gluten related disorders: The gluten free diet and the microbiome

22 April 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Ran Wang - Targeting Th17 cells to treat inflammatory and autoimmune diseases

1 April 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Nigel McMillan - Effective antivirals to SARS-CoV-2 – our missing link

17 September 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Josephine Forbes - The not so "mighty" chondrion: Lessons learned from young people with diabetes

10 September 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Michael Barras - Developing a collaborative research culture in Metro South Health

3 September 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Sanjay Garg - Development of a novel contraceptive from concept to US FDA approval and marketing

13 August 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Gary Chan - Adjusting for time-varying confounders using IPTW for causal inference

30 July 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Laurence Cheung - New therapeutic strategies for children with high-risk leukaemia by dissecting and targeting the bone marrow microenvironment

7 May 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Ben Colagiuri - Developing strategies to inhibit the nocebo effect

23 April 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Francine Marques - Targeting the microbial pharmacists within us to lower blood pressure

16 April 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Paul Clarke - Cellular responses to disruption of mitosis and DNA damage: implications for cancer chemotherapy

19 March 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Karen Luetsch - A realist synthesis of pharmacist-conducted medication reviews in primary care after leaving hospital: what works for whom and why?

30 October 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Neale Cohen – How technology is changing the management of Type 1 diabetes

23 October 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Chris Freeman - A model of General Practitioner and Pharmacist collaboration in primary care to reduce hospital readmission and ED presentations

16 October 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Timothy Chen – Home Medicines Review: a collaborative QUM service utilizing the expertise of pharmacists.

9 October 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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David Bunker - Implementing a Learning Health System in Queensland

25 September 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Paulina Stehlik – Clinician engagement in research

18 September 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Kathryn Steadman - "I can't swallow that!" - Helping pharmacists better support medication swallowing difficulties

11 September 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Ms Lucy Walker - Global search for innovation: learnings for community pharmacy in Australia

4 September 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Wayne Hall – What lies behind the recent revival of therapeutic research on psychedelic drugs?

28 August 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Dan Siskind – Clozapine: A fine balance

21 August 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Magnolia Cardona – Deprescribing older patients and identification of over-treatments near the end of life: rationale, feasibility and methods

7 August 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Prof Ian Henderson - Resolution of infection through antibody modulation

13 March 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr James Falconer - Supercritical technology and applications

6 March 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Peter Molenaar - Phosphodiesterase control of β1- and β2-adrenoceptor mediated contractile responses in failing human ventricle

28 February 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Erwei Song - Treat the cancer soil: Turn foes to friends

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6 February 2020 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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Associate Professor Eric J. Vanman - How openness can improve science: Tales from the front-line

25 October 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Assistant Professor Jinmyoung Joo - Biodegradable luminescent silicon nanoparticles for targeted nanomedicine

18 October 2019 2:00pm–3:00pm
 
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Dr Judith Singleton - The Impact of pharmaceuticals on the environment: what do pharmacists and pharmacy technicians believe?

18 October 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Julie Cichero - Thick drinks, pureed food, fussy eating, tablet swallowing issues and the International Framework: a kaleidoscope of research from inter-professional opportunities

11 October 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Danielle Kamato - The expansion on the role of Smad2 linker region represents a new cell signalling frontier

27 September 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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A/Professor Coral Gartner - Regulatory options for ending the tobacco cigarette epidemic

13 September 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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A/Prof Bruno van Swinderen - Understanding general anaesthesia: a more complete picture emerges

6 September 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Lisa Nissen - “Pharmacist Prescribing”: this is impossible, only if you think it is!

30 August 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Amirali Popat - Emerging trends in stimuli responsive nanomaterials for oral drug delivery

23 August 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Vivienne Tippett - Challenges in health risk communication

16 August 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor David Henry - How distributed networks of population data centres are changing the way in which we investigate serious adverse effects of prescription medicines

9 August 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Stephen Birch - Cohort effects on the need for health care and implications for health care planning

2 August 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Su-Yeon Yu - Consumption of Drugs used for Acid-related Disorders in Australia and Korea

31 May 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Nynke Jager - Clinical application of therapeutic drug monitoring: a Dutch experience

24 May 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Jennifer Martin (The University of Newcastle) - Medical Cannabis: the importance of the pharmacological detail

17 May 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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A/Prof Christine Staatz - Characterising and improving the usage and monitoring of immunosuppressant agents

10 May 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Tushar Kumeria - Smart porous materials for biomedical applications

3 May 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Sam Hollingworth: Health Technology Assessment in LMIC

12 April 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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A/Prof Tracy Comans and Dr Kim-Huong Nguyen: Application of economic evaluation in health technology assessment in Australia

5 April 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Mohamed Fahim Abdul Cader: Transforming research culture through capacity building - experience from a developing country

4 April 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus Judith Clements AC - Kallikrein proteases and the tumour microenvironment

29 March 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Mr Andrew Harvey, QEDDI (UniQuest) - Drug discovery at the interface of academia and industry

22 March 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Marie-Odile Parat: Can opioids administered to cancer surgery patients modulate long-term recurrence or metastasis?

15 March 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Lachlan Rash, UQ SBMS - Acid sensing ion channels as therapeutic targets

8 March 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Hassan Khosravi, UQ ITaLI - RiPPLE: A crowdsourced adaptive E-learning platform for recommending learning activities

1 March 2019 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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