Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

The Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) was established in 2008 and comprises the largest and most experienced group of pharmaceutical scientists in Australia. MIPS integrates pharmaceutical science research activities at the Monash Parkville campus into three key discipline-based themes:

• Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Action
• Centre for Drug Candidate Optimisation
• Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics

A fourth theme, Drug Discovery Biology, will be introduced in early 2009 and will operate as a joint initiative of the faculties of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science and Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.

MIPS has a therapeutic focus in: infectious disease (anti-bacterial, anti-viral and antiparasitic), cancer (aligned with the research activities of the Cooperative Research Centre for Cancer Therapeutics) and central nervous system (CNS) disease