Key Information
- Duration: Full-time: 36 months; Part-time: 60 months
- Start dates & application deadlines:
- Starting January 2027 — Apply before Oct 2026
Overview
Medicinal Chemistry delivered at Cardiff University aim is to offer knowledge and expertise for a career in the pharmaceutical industry, academia or in primary/secondary care.
Distinctive features
- The work involves close collaboration with virologists and biochemists throughout Europe, and USA.
- The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has excellent facilities for the group. It has purchased a Bruker 500MHz NMR spectrometer, a Fisons Platform II Mass Spectrometer (set up for electrospray and APCI) and several Silicon Graphics workstations and extensive software including Sybyl, Macromodel, DOCK, GRID and Oxford Molecular Software. The synthetic chemistry laboratories have recently been refurbished and each researcher has their own fume hood.
- There are excellent library facilities and computer links from all the laboratories allowing access to a wide range of databases.
Programme Structure
Research themes
- Molecular modelling
- Nucleotide prodrugs (“Protides”) especially as anticancer and antiviral agents
- This research group enjoys well-equipped laboratories.
- Computer-based molecular graphics
- synthesis and analysis of bioactive molecules
- applying a wide variety of spectroscopic and other analytical methods.
Admission Requirements
Academic requirements
GPA: Upper Second Class
English requirements
- TOEFL iBT: 90
- PTE Academic: 69
- IELTS: 6.5
General requirements
Applicants should possess a minimum of an upper second class Honours degree, master's degree, or equivalent in a relevant subject.
Fees and Funding
Tuition Fees
- International: 50,445 AUD / year (≈ 26,700 GBP / year)
- Domestic: 9,458 AUD / year (≈ 5,006 GBP / year)
- Part-time tuition fees: £2,503
Living costs (Cardiff, United Kingdom)
1,186–2,014 AUD / month. The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
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