Therapeutic strategies to make a difference

Tuesday 29 September
6.30pm - 7.30pm

Mutual Community Lecture Theatre
Basil Hetzel Building
City East campus

How can we harness the power of rapidly improving technology for superior health outcomes?

An expert in therapeutics and pharmaceutical research, Michael Roberts explores new methods of treatment for medical conditions. Utilising nano-technology, researchers and clinicians can design treatments for many medical conditions to directly target the affected area of the body, potentially minimising unnecessary side-effects and improving the effectiveness of treatment regimes.

Spend an hour with Michael Roberts and learn how researchers are using new cutting edge technologies to administer therapeutic treatments through the skin and how these techniques have the potential to enhance not only medicines but common cosmetics. Some medicinal elements can already be found in cosmetics but do they currently do all they claim? Come along to find out the answer.

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Body of Knowledge.
Division of Health Sciences

Professor Michael Roberts

Professor Roberts PhD, DSc is an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Principal Research Fellow & Professor in Therapeutics and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UniSA. He is also Director of the Therapeutics Research Unit in the School of Medicine at the University of Queensland. He has more than 300 peer reviewed research publications and has co-edited six research books. His key research areas of interest are rational drug design, drug delivery, pharmacokinetics and quality use of medicines. In 2004 he was awarded the inaugural Australasian Pharmaceutical Science Association (APSA) Achievement award "for outstanding achievements in pharmaceutical science". In 2007 he was awarded the Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists (ASCEPT) biennial Michael Rand Medal for outstanding contribution to the disciplines of clinical and experimental pharmacology or toxicology nationally and internationally.