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Prof Stuart McLean

BPharm(Hons) MPharm PhD

Emeritus Professor

Contact Details
Telephone: +61 3 6226 2199
Fax: +61 3 6226 2870
Location: Hobart Campus, Pharmacy Building, 2030
Email: Stuart.McLean@utas.edu.au

Stuart McLean is a graduate of the University of Sydney and has has worked at the University of New South Wales and several universities in Europe and North America.

In 2006 he was elected a Life Member of the Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology.


Research Interests

Metabolism of drugs and other chemicals; clinical pharmacology; drug analysis; harm minimisation with social drugs; chemical ecology.

Selected Publications:

  • McLean S, R Boyle, S Brandon, NW Davies, JS Sorensen, 2007, 'Pharmacokinetics of 1,8-cineole, a dietary toxin, in the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula): significance for feeding. ', Xenobiotica, 37, pgs. 903-922
  • Pass GJ, S McLean and I Stupans, 1999, 'Induction of xenobiotic metabolising enzymes in the common brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula, by Eucalyptus terpenes. ', Comp Biochem Physiol C, 124, pgs. 239-246
  • Boyle R, S McLean, WJ Foley, NW Davies, 1999, 'Comparative metabolism of dietary terpene, p-cymene, in generalist and specialist folivorous marsupials.', J Chem Ecol, 25, pgs. 2109-2126
  • Boyle R, S McLean and NW Davies, 2000, 'Biotransformation of 1,8-cineole in the brushtail possum. ', Xenobiotica, 30, pgs. 915-31
  • Woods R, McLean, and HR Burton, 1999, 'Pharmacokinetics of intravenously administered ketamine in southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina). ', Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C, 123, pgs. 279-284
  • Bruno, R and S McLean, 2002, 'Tasmanian Drug Trends 2001. Finding from the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS).', NDARC Technical Report No 135, University of New South Wales
  • Boyle R, S McLean, WJ Foley, BD Moore, NW Davies and S Brandon. , 2000, 'Fate of the dietary terpene, p-cymene, in the male koala. ', J Chem Ecol, 26, pgs. 1095-1111

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