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Pharmaceuticals & Drug Delivery @ Aston
Chronic Diseases
Our research teams are adopting interdisciplinary approaches from biomedical sciences and health psychology to:
  • Improve understanding of the biological processes that control chronic diseases including inflammation, fibrosis and metabolism
  • Develop improved methods of disease prevention, management and therapy through nutritional, medicinal and behavioural intervention
  • Advance understanding of cognitive processes that influence the development, management and self-management of chronic disease
Communicable Diseases
Our communicable diseases research theme comprises several core research projects:
  • Mechanisms of pathogenicity
  • Diagnostics
  • Therapeutics
Our clinical microbiologists work with practitioners to:
  • Improve understanding of the host response to transmissible agents in health and disease
  • Develop innovative approaches for early, sensitive and specific diagnosis, control and treatment of infectious diseases
  • Design new drug treatments which are effective against resistant organisms
  • Develop improved medicines through formulation or delivery
  • Evaluate the efficacy of anti-infectives in vivo
  • Improve practitioner understanding to ensure appropriate and effective use of anti-infectives within the healthcare environment