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 four key discipline-based themes:

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

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)
• central nervous system (CNS) diseases
• metabolic diseases