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Medicines & Drugs
Professor Donald Cairns
School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
- Rational design of drugs
- Actions and uses of drugs and medicines
- Interesting poisons
- Commission on human medicines
T: 01224 262501
Dr Denise Hansford
School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
- Medicines management
- Reclassified medicines
- Pharmaceutical formulation especially paediatric medicines
T: 01224 262509
Education & Learning
Dr Lesley Diack
School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences
Area of Expertise:
- E-learning
- Educational innovation
- Interprofessional education
T: 01224 262511
Water Quality & Purification
Professor Linda Lawton
School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
- Water quality
- Algal blooms
- Blue-green algae & the poisons they produce
- Water purification
- Analysis of water pollutants
- Detention of trace organics
- Taint compounds in water & aquaculture
T: 01224 262823
Cell Culture
Dr Lesley C McIntosh
School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
- Angiogenesis (in vitro models, diabetes, cancer)
- Immunology (macrophages & cell-mediated immunity)
- Cell migration
- Cell culture
T: 01224 262833
Forensic Science
Professor (Andrew) Dave Barclay
School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
- Forensic science & investigative practice
- Cold case review protocols
- Public understanding of science
- Criminal defence work
T: 01224 262800
Dr Andrew Morrisson
School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
- Analytical chemistry
- Forensic analysis
- Forensic soil evidence
- Forensic science education & training
T: 01224 262815
Nutrition
Professor Brian Ratcliffe
School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
- General nutrition
- Diet & health
- Fruit & vegetables
- Cancer prevention
T: 01224 262812
Dr Alan Wise
School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences
Area of Expertise:
- Nutritional computer programming
T: 01224 262856
Medical Microbiology
Dr Jeanette Robertson
School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
- Medical microbiology
- Microbiological treatment of potable water
T: 01224 262853
Analytical Techniques
Raymond Reid
School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
- Analytical techniques
- Natural products
- Chemical profiling/fingerprinting of herbal products
- High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
- Gas Liquid Chromatography (GLC)
- Capillary Electrophoresis (CE)
- Chromatography-mass spectrometry
- Quality of medicines
T: 01224 262518
DNA
Dr Theresa Wilson
School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
- DNA profiling
- Identity testing
- Relationship testing
- DNA recovery
- DNA analysis
T: 01224 262884
Non-medical prescribing
Dr Derek Stewart
School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
- Non-medical prescribing
- Pharmacovigilance
- Reclassified medicines & self care
- Public health
T: 01224 262432
