Lecturer - Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics

Job No.: 644832

Location: Parkville campus

Employment Type: Full-time

Duration: Continuing appointment

Remuneration: $107,311 – $127,432 pa Level B (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Be inspired, every day
• Drive your own learning at one of the world’s top 80 universities
• Take your career in exciting, rewarding directions

Everyone needs a platform to launch a satisfying career. At Monash, we give you the space and support to take your career in all kinds of exciting new directions. You’ll have access to quality research, infrastructure and learning facilities, opportunities to collaborate internationally, as well as the grants you’ll need to publish your work. We’re a university full of energetic and enthusiastic minds, driven to challenge what’s expected, expand what we know, and learn from other inspiring, empowering thinkers.

The Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is dynamic, innovative and ambitious, a leading education provider for over 130 years, ranking top 3 in the world for Pharmacy and Pharmacology. We engage some of the best equipped and most experienced pharmaceutical scientists and medicine experts in Australia and offer world-class teaching facilities and research laboratories to our students and staff. To learn more about the Faculty, please visit our website: www.monash.edu/pharm .

The Opportunity

The Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) integrates research from five fundamental research themes to identify, develop, optimise and deliver new drug treatments – ultimately translating basic research into clinical trials. The areas of research strength of the five themes at MIPS are Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics , Drug Candidate Optimisation , Drug Discovery Biology , Medicinal Chemistry and Medicine Use and Safety .

The Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics (D4) theme is home to a team of multidisciplinary researchers who are working on approaches to maximise therapeutic activity and minimise side effects of new and existing medicines. The D4 theme is internationally renowned for research programs in lipid-based drug delivery, the role of lymphatics in disease progression and drug distribution, nanomedicines and nanomaterials for therapeutic and diagnostic applications.

Reporting to the Head of Theme, Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics, the Lecturer is expected to make contributions to the teaching effort of the university and to carry out activities to maintain and develop scholarly, research and/or professional activities relevant to the profession or discipline.

As the successful candidate you will be responsible for:

• Undergraduate education and postgraduate training programs in pharmacy and pharmaceutical science
• Developing an independent research program in Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics ideally in the field of delivery and formulation of nucleic acids, peptides and/or proteins
• Leading and driving research and education strategy
• Providing support, supervision and mentorship to PhD, honours and postgraduate students 
• Other duties as directed from time to time

To be successful in the role, you will have a doctoral qualification in the relevant discipline area or equivalent accreditation and standing.

If this sounds like a position that suits your current career focus we look forward to hearing from you.

This role is a full-time position; however, flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.

Your application must address the selection criteria. Please refer to “”https://www.monash.edu/jobs/how-to-apply/applying-for-the-job" rel=“noopener noreferrer” target="_blank">How to apply for Monash Jobs".

At Monash University, we are committed to being a Child Safe organisation. This position at the University will require the incumbent to hold a valid Working with Children Check.

Enquiries 

Professor Michelle McIntosh, Professor, Pharmaceutics, +61 3 9903 9531

Position Description

 Lecturer - Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics

Closing Date

Wednesday 8 March 2023, 11:55pm AEDT