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Consulting & Contracting

The Discipline of Pharmacology has a wide variety of expertise in areas ranging from whole organism pharmacology to molecular pharmacology and toxicology. Organisations wishing to use the Discipline's expertise in consulting or contract research and testing should go to the research pages for details of Discipline research strengths, and then contact the researchers.

All contracts must go through Adelaide Research and Innovation. Please see the ARI web page for information on consulting and contracting.

PARC (Pain and Anaesthesia Research Clinic)

PARC is a new activity in which the discipline of pharmacology has played a major role in its generation. PARC is a wholly owned business unit of Adelaide Research and Innovation (ARI), the commercial arm of the University of Adelaide. It brings together the strengths of the disciplines of pharmacology and anaesthesia at the University of Adelaide, with the two principals, Paul Rolan and Guy Ludbrook, having experience of over more than 600 clinical trials between them.

PARC principally aims to undertake proof of concept studies with novel treatments for chronic pain and anaesthesia. PARC have secured the lease of a six bed clinical research unit within the fabric of the Royal Adelaide Hospital where not only its commercial studies can run, but provides a safe environment to execute academic studies in a clinical area. This offers the opportunity for Honours and PhD students to work in a high quality, internationally recognised clinical research facility with appropriate training and supervision.

PARC has access to a wide range of patients and techniques to assess pain responses including experimental pain models. For further information on PARC, please see the PARC web site