The Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (CPT) is part of St Vincent’s Clinical School, UNSW Medicine and St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney. The core activities of the CPT Department focus on promoting the safe and effective use of medicine as well as patient safety at St Vincent’s Hospital and in the community. The Department provides leadership in the areas of therapeutics and quality use of medicines locally, nationally and internationally through its advisory roles, collaborations, memberships and associations.
Research is also a very large part of who we are and what we do. We conduct ground-breaking research in many exciting areas, including allopurinol used in gout, metformin used in diabetes and various antibiotics, anti-fungals and antiviral drugs. Our ultimate goal is safe and effective therapy for patients.