Chancellery
Pro Vice Chancellor and Vice President: Division of Health Sciences.
Allan graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the South
Australian Institute of Technology and in 1989 obtained his PhD in
clinical pharmacology from the University of Adelaide. He followed this
with post-doctoral experience at the University of Manchester, UK.
Since 1992, he has been an academic at UniSA, taking on various
leadership positions and being promoted to Professor in Pharmaceutics in
2003. In 2004 Allan became Head of the School of Pharmacy and Medical
Science and played an instrumental role in establishing the Sansom
Institute (now the Division-based Sansom Institute for Health Research)
and in supporting tremendous growth in the school’s research activity
and teaching profile.
Allan has a significant research career. He has more than 90
peer-reviewed publications with over 1,200 literature citations and has
held NHMRC and/or ARC grants on an ongoing basis since 1994. His
research interests are broad, and include basic, clinical and commercial
research into the better use of medicines as well as the development of
new ways of using medicines to treat skin cancer and kidney disease.
Allan’s group has attracted over $15 million in Category 1-4 research
income to UniSA and he continues to manage a number of exciting research
projects which regularly lead to invited lectures at overseas
conferences. Allan is former President of the Australasian
Pharmaceutical Science Association and Convenor of the Adelaide
Pharmacology Group.
Allan is currently non-executive Director of two spin-off companies that
he helped to form, PharmaQest Pty Ltd and CPR Pharma Services Ltd, and
has a keen interest in supporting innovation in the health and medical
sector and encouraging entrepreneurial activity within UniSA.
