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  1. Microbial Natural Products

    The Centre for Natural Products Discovery is concerned with preventing and curing disease. Find out about about the discovery and production of antibiotics and other bioactive molecules from microbial sources, and assessment of antimicrobial mechanism of actions.

  2. Natural Products Analysis

    The Centre for Natural Products Discovery is concerned with preventing and curing disease. Find out about incorporating instrumental methods development and new applications of existing instrumental methods to address natural products research.

  3. Natural Products Synthesis

    The Centre for Natural Products Discovery is concerned with preventing and curing disease. Find out more about total or partial synthesis of natural products.

  4. Natural Products Toxicology

    The Centre for Natural Products Discovery is concerned with preventing and curing disease. Find out about investigating natural products and their toxicity, particularly in their ability to cause toxicity to cancer cells in an effort to identify new potential cancer chemotherapeutic leads.

  5. Natural Products Pharmacology

    The Centre for Natural Products Discovery is concerned with preventing and curing disease. Find out more about the biological effects of natural products and the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the observed effects, in order to develop novel drug leads for a range of disease conditions

  6. Nutraceuticals Functional Foods

    The Centre for Natural Products Discovery is concerned with preventing and curing disease. Find out about the abundance of scientific evidence that indicates that certain naturally occurring, non-nutritive and nutritive chemical components may prevent or reduce the risk of some chronic diseases.

  7. Industrial Design Group

    The Industrial Design Group has been focusing on human-centred design research that applying Human Factors theory to optimise human well-being and overall system performance.

  8. (Post)qualitative Research in Education

    The (Post)qualitative Research in Education group recognises and works across the following areas of activity and interest: ‘Research in Psychogeography, Post-qualitative inquiry, Autoethnography, and Life-Writing in education’ (RiPPALe).