Doctoral Programme in Drug Research

About this programme

The DPDR is a multidisciplinary doctoral programme that welcomes motivated researchers. The programme conducts both fundamental and applied research that addresses societal challenges. We span the whole life cycle of drug development from discovering novel drug targets all the way to pharmacovigilance. Our fields include, for example, brain diseases, fundamental neuroscience, cancer medicine, and antibiotic resistance. Pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical research specifically includes small molecule drug design, medicinal chemistry, biological drugs (antibodies, proteins, peptides, viral vectors), bioactivity screening, mode and mechanism of action, pharmaceutical microbiology, drug formulation, nanomedicines, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, drug preclinical efficacy and safety, development and implementation of novel analytics. We also conduct industrial pharmacy and manufacturing research, including the development of novel process analytical technologies. From the human (patient/consumer citizen) perspective, important research involves drug interactions, pharmacogenetics, clinical pharmacology, clinical drug research, pharmacoepidemiology, clinical pharmacy, social pharmacy, drug effectiveness and safety, pharmacoeconomics, toxicology and clinical toxicology, as well as veterinary drug research.