The National University of Ireland Galway is located in the city of Galway in Ireland.
A third-level teaching and research institution, the University has been awarded the full five QS stars for excellence, and is ranked among the top 1 per cent of universities according to the 2018 QS World University Rankings.
96% of our grads are working or in further study 6 months after graduating.
NUI Galway has over:
18,000 students.
3,000 international students from 115 countries.
2,400 staff members.
120 links with universities across the globe.
90,000 alumni in 107 countries.
170 years experience of providing university education.
NUI Galway is:
ranked among the Top 1% internationally according to the QS World University Rankings
Ireland's top university for graduate employability with 96% of our graduates employed or in further study within six months of graduating.
the largest and oldest university in the west of Ireland.
(MSc) Cheminformatics and Toxicology
Cheminformatics is the use of computational techniques to solve chemistry, pharmacology and toxicology problems.
Students will understand and apply a range of computational tools to address toxicological questions in preparation for a career in in silico toxicity prediction in the pharma, industry, consultancy, academia and government.
The course is delivered over one year by the disciplines of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Mathematics and Chemistry.
Career Opportunities::
It costs approximately $1bn and 10–20 years to get a drug from conception to market.
While many candidate molecules enter the drug development pipeline, most will fail to become drugs, mainly due to unexpected toxicity.
The failure to identify toxicity early in the development process costs the pharmaceutical industry billions of dollars in either failed clinical trials or in withdrawing drugs from the market.
At the same time national and trans-national regulatory bodies work to identify the toxicity of chemicals used in food-stuffs, consumer products, industry and agriculture with the aim of building a chemically safe society.
Consequently the global ADME toxicology testing market, which aims to identify potential toxicity is projected to surpass $16.2 billion by 2024. In an era when Pharma investment in research and development is falling, scientists to develop and use computational tools that better predict toxicity are at a premium.
The value of these skills is further enhanced by the scarcity of training programmes to produce toxicologists with the appropriate computational skills.
Graduates from the course will be employed in the Pharmaceutical industry, the Cosmetics Industry, National and EU Regulatory bodies, Toxicology Consultancies and academia.
Mr. Deepak, Education Manager, Career XL Services says the average toxicologist salary in Ireland is €54,713 or an equivalent hourly rate of €26.
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