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MONASH PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES Changing of the Guard Meet our new Dean Going Global: The faculty’s ISSUE 34 • SUMMERISSUE 34 2019/20 increasingly international face John and Nariel Ware endow new scholarship Alumni news Fast Facts 2017 CLARIVATE ANALYTICS HIGHLY CITED RESEARCHERS (2004–2014) No.1 worldwide in Pharmacology and Toxicology QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS BY SUBJECT, PHARMACY AND PHARMACOLOGY No.1 in Australia and Asia-Pacific 2018 No.1 worldwide for academic reputation 2018 No.2 worldwide 2018 Top 10 worldwide (average 2011–2018) Excellence in Research for Australia 2015 Top rating of 5 in all sectors (well above world standard) PharmAlliance with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US and University College London, UK National Alliance for Pharmacy Education with University of Queensland, University of Sydney University of South Australia MONASH PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES Fast Facts Contents 02 News in brief Alchemy is produced 2017 CLARIVATE ANALYTICS by the Development Office, HIGHLY CITED RESEARCHERS (2004–2014) 04 Dean Charman steps down Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, No.1 worldwide in Pharmacology and Toxicology 06 Research with impact Monash University. Managing Editor: John Palmer 10 Special feature: Going global Writers: Rahul Ratwatte, Cyndi Ferguson, QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS BY SUBJECT, Divya Krishnan 11 Monash University Malaysia’s School of Pharmacy Design: BPO Intelligence PHARMACY AND PHARMACOLOGY celebrates 10 years Photography: Paul Philipson and Greg Ford No.1 in Australia and Asia-Pacific 2018 13 Our international alumni Contact us: No.1 worldwide for academic reputation 2018 John Palmer 17 North Carolina calling: five minutes Marketing Manager No.2 worldwide 2018 with our international partners [email protected] Top 10 worldwide (average 2011–2018) Disclaimer 18 Graduate entry pharmacy attracts Views expressed in Alchemy are those of the authors and persons quoted and are not necessarily international attention those of the Monash Faculty of Pharmacy and Excellence in Research for Australia 2015 20 Meet the new Dean: Professor Arthur Christopoulos Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University. Alchemy is printed on FSC Environmentally Top rating of 5 in all sectors (well above world standard) 22 Introducing the ELPHs Accredited paper. FSC tracks certified material through the production process – from the forest 23 From hospital to hardcover: VCP alumna Susan Hurley to the consumer, including all successive stages PharmAlliance of processing, transformation, manufacturing 24 Course director update: Coaching the next and distribution. with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US generation to victory and University College London, UK 26 Professor Simon Bell and the future of CMUS 27 Coming together to commemorate National Alliance for Pharmacy Education 31 Professor Mark Febbario goes for gold with University of Queensland, University of Sydney 32 PHDs to improve practice University of South Australia 33 The story of the Acrux sculpture ALCHEMY SUMMER 2019/20 1 Fast Facts ANNUAL QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS BY SUBJECT, PHARMACY AND PHARMACOLOGY Top 3 Worldwide (2017, 2018, 2019) No. 1 Pharmacy School Worldwide (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) No. 1 for Academic Reputation Worldwide (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) CLARIVATE ANALYTICS / THOMPSON REUTERS HIGHLY CITED RESEARCHERS Top 2 Worldwide for Pharmacology and toxicology (2016, 2017, 2018) EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH FOR AUSTRALIA 2015, 2018 Top Rating of 5 In all of our fields of research 49 ACADEMIC STAFF, 42 PROFESSIONAL STAFF, 215 RESEARCH-ONLY STAFF, 240 PHD STUDENTS Australia’s only integrated Bachelor and Master of Pharmacy program: Making healthcare better Revitalised Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science program: Advancing biotech/pharma industries Experiential Development and Graduate Education unit (EDGE): Advancing lifelong learning Australia’s premier Pharmaceutical Sciences PhD program: Training tomorrow’s research leaders MONASH PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES Fast Facts Contents ANNUAL QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS BY 02 News in brief Alchemy is produced by the Development Office, SUBJECT, PHARMACY AND PHARMACOLOGY 04 Dean Charman steps down Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Top 3 Worldwide (2017, 2018, 2019) 06 Research with impact Monash University. No. 1 Pharmacy School Worldwide (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) Managing Editor: John Palmer 10 Special feature: Going global Writers: Rahul Ratwatte, Cyndi Ferguson, No. 1 for Academic Reputation Worldwide Divya Krishnan (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) 11 Monash University Malaysia’s School of Pharmacy Design: BPO Intelligence celebrates 10 years Photography: Paul Philipson and Greg Ford 13 Our international alumni Contact us: CLARIVATE ANALYTICS / THOMPSON REUTERS John Palmer HIGHLY CITED RESEARCHERS 17 North Carolina calling: five minutes Marketing Manager with our international partners [email protected] Top 2 Worldwide for Pharmacology and toxicology Disclaimer 18 Graduate entry pharmacy attracts Views expressed in Alchemy are those of the (2016, 2017, 2018) authors and persons quoted and are not necessarily international attention those of the Monash Faculty of Pharmacy and 20 Meet the new Dean: Professor Arthur Christopoulos Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University. EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH FOR AUSTRALIA Alchemy is printed on FSC Environmentally 22 Introducing the ELPHs Accredited paper. FSC tracks certified material 2015, 2018 through the production process – from the forest 23 From hospital to hardcover: VCP alumna Susan Hurley to the consumer, including all successive stages Top Rating of 5 In all of our fields of research of processing, transformation, manufacturing 24 Course director update: Coaching the next and distribution. generation to victory 49 ACADEMIC STAFF, 42 PROFESSIONAL STAFF, 215 RESEARCH-ONLY STAFF, 240 PHD STUDENTS 26 Professor Simon Bell and the future of CMUS 27 Coming together to commemorate Australia’s only integrated Bachelor and Master of 31 Professor Mark Febbario goes for gold Pharmacy program: Making healthcare better 32 PHDs to improve practice Revitalised Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science program: Advancing biotech/pharma industries 33 The story of the Acrux sculpture Experiential Development and Graduate Education unit (EDGE): Advancing lifelong learning Australia’s premier Pharmaceutical Sciences PhD program: Training tomorrow’s research leaders ALCHEMY SUMMER 2019/20 3 News in brief Rebecca Ritchie Paul White new Monash University new head of DDB deputy dean world rankings The Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences has again received excellent results in the latest Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) rankings. The ERA process assesses the quality of research conducted at all Australian higher education institutions. The rankings provide an international benchmark by which to measure discipline expertise, and research Leading cardiovascular disease Longtime Associate Dean of Education quality and environment. researcher Professor Rebecca Ritchie Paul White has been named the new The Faculty has received the highest score of has been appointed the new Theme Deputy Dean. 5 in all its major disciplines: Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry, Nanotechnology, and Leader of the Drug Discovery Biology Professor White joined the Faculty in 1998 as Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Theme at MIPS. an Assistant Lecturer and has contributed to The score of 5 denotes a research output that the Faculty's education and research missions Professor Ritchie is an NHMRC Senior Research is well above world standard. Fellow and was previously Head of the Heart over the past 21 years. He has worked with Failure Laboratory at the Baker Heart and other Faculty leaders to transform teaching The latest rankings mean that MIPS has Diabetes Institute. and learning, and this has been acknowledged maintained the ranking it attained in 2015, via receipt of national teaching awards from having received 5 out of 5 in all four digit code She replaces former Theme Leader, Professor the Australian Government Office for Learning disciplines, confirming its position as a world Arthur Christopoulos, who stepped down from and Teaching and the Australasian Society of leader in its key research fields. the position to assume his new role as Dean of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists Monash University ranked #1 the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical and Toxicologists, in addition to the Vice Sciences in August of this year. Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence Pharmacy program, top 3 in the world, for Pharmacy and Pharmacology A graduate of the Dept of Medicine (Cardiology) in 2014. at the University of Adelaide under the His education research has informed the The most recent QS World University Rankings supervision of Professor John Horowitz, Faculty's approaches to learning and has been by Subject have ranked Monash University in Professor Ritchie’s PhD focussed on predictors highly cited. In addition to his contributions to the top three in the world in Pharmacy and of myocardial function in vivo in patients with education scholarship, Professor White has co- Pharmacology, making it the number one coronary heart disease, including development led a research group with Dr Lauren May that ranked Pharmacy program. In the academic of the first quantitative model of the force- continues to shed new light on GPCR signalling reputation category, Monash University again interval relationship