Position
Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
Qualifications
• President of the University of Melbourne Academic Board (2000-2001).
• Chair of Pharmacology and Head of the Department of Pharmacology, the University of Melbourne ( - 2003).
• Postdoctoral studies with Sir James Black FRS at University College, London and the Wellcome Research Laboratories in Beckenham.
• PhD, the University of Sydney.
Expertise
• Preclinical pharmacology in relation to cardiovascular and antinociceptive drugs.
Key Areas of Research
• Analytical pharmacology for the development of compounds with dual antioxidant and antihypertensive actions on the cardiovascular system.
• Development of in vivo assays of cardiovascular inflammation.
• Mechanisms of action of drugs interacting with calcium channels, nitric oxide, endothelium derived hyperpolarising factor, vascular endothelial growth factor, endothelin, renin-angiotensin system and cannabinoids.
Selected Publications
Grange, RL; Ziogas, J; North, AJ; Angus, JA; Schiesser, CH. Selenosartans: Novel Selenium–Containing Compounds with Antihypertensive Activity. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 2008, 18, 1241 – 1244.
