Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology MPhil/PhD

Students joining Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology enter this outstanding postgraduate training environment. The department brings together scientists working in world-leading interdisciplinary research specialities related to the structure and function of single molecules, synaptic signalling in the nervous system, understanding of circuits in the brain underlying behaviour, pain and inflammation, metabolic disorders and the pharmacology of neurotransmitter receptors, channels and transporters in cell membranes.

Academic research here is conducted at molecular, cellular, organismal and systems levels and may involve animal models of disease or studies in humans.