RMIT University PhD Scholarship in the Centre of Advanced Materials and Industrial Chemistry 2017, Australia

Eligibility: 

To be considered for scholarship you must:

1. Hold (or be currently completing) a research-inclusive Masters degree, OR hold (or be currently completing) a first class honours degree in a relevant discipline.
2. Meet RMIT’s entry requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy.
3. Be an Australian/New Zealand citizen or Australian permanent resident.

How to apply and further information. 

Please send a 1 page letter of motivation with a copy of your CV to the contact for the project.

Despite the success of existing clinical metal compounds for the treatment of cancer, further developments in drug therapy are necessary to overcome their drawbacks, primarily their high toxicity, which causes unwanted side-effects in the human body.

This project seeks to develop a new class of anti-cancer gold drugs which are less toxic towards non-cancerous cells, thus causing few or no unwanted side-effects. Preliminary investigations for this project have demonstrated the successful preparation of the desired ligands and gold complexes. The same methodology will be applied to prepare new ligands and coordinate them to gold components.

We seek chemistry/ medicinal chemistry and organometallic chemistry graduates with a passion to learn and extend their knowledge to biology.