Overview
Medicinal Chemistry from Cardiff University aim is to offer knowledge and expertise for a career in the pharmaceutical industry, academia or in primary/secondary care.
Distinctive features
- The work involves close collaboration with virologists and biochemists throughout Europe, and USA.
- The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has excellent facilities for the group. It has purchased a Bruker 500MHz NMR spectrometer, a Fisons Platform II Mass Spectrometer (set up for electrospray and APCI) and several Silicon Graphics workstations and extensive software including Sybyl, Macromodel, DOCK, GRID and Oxford Molecular Software. The synthetic chemistry laboratories have recently been refurbished and each researcher has their own fume hood.
- There are excellent library facilities and computer links from all the laboratories allowing access to a wide range of databases.
Programme Structure
Research themes
- Molecular modelling
- Nucleotide prodrugs (“Protides”) especially as anticancer and antiviral agents
- This research group enjoys well-equipped laboratories.
There is close collaboration with virologists and biochemists throughout Europe, and USA.
Area of expertise
- Computer-based molecular graphics
- synthesis and analysis of bioactive molecules
- applying a wide variety of spectroscopic and other analytical methods.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 36 months
- Part-time
- 60 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Disciplines
Chemistry Pharmacy Health Sciences View 164 other PhDs in Health Sciences in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any academic requirements for this programme.
English requirements
Other requirements
General requirements
- Exam results (copies of original certificates or transcripts and English translations, if necessary, to prove you have the qualifications listed on your application form)
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- Personal statement (some programmes require a specific personal statement, so check the entry requirements for your programme)
- Research proposal (for research students who are not applying for listed projects)
- English Language certificates (for applicants whose first language is not English)
Tuition Fee
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Living costs for Cardiff
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Funding
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