Designing and discovering new treatments
We discover medicines to treat the world’s deadliest diseases, including heart attack, stroke, respiratory diseases and cancer, and to relieve inflammation and pain. We discover animal medicines, and eco-friendly insecticides to protect crops.
We discover medicines using clues from Australian plants, animals, and microbes in soil. We study structures and actions of proteins that are our drug targets, improving our understanding of disease mechanisms and drug action. We create new technologies to grow medicines in plants and algae.
Our Centre has translated research into drugs in clinical trials, and insecticides and animal control baits on the market.
Professor David Fairlie
Director, Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery
Contact the Centre
+61 7 334 62989
ctr-cdd-admin@imb.uq.edu.au
Expertise
- Chemistry
- Biochemistry
- Proteomics
- Protein structure and function
- Immunology
- Pharmacology
- Drug discovery and development
- Drug targets
- Natural products
- Synthetic compounds
- in silico compounds
- Signaling pathways and mechanisms
- Genomic/proteomic analyses
- Structure-based drug design
Disease focus
- Heart disease
- Cancer
- Stroke
- Chronic respiratory diseases
- Dementia
- Diabetes
- Chronic liver disease
- Kidney disease
- Chronic pain
Research Groups
Protein structure in drug and insecticide design
Professor David CraikChemistry and human therapeutics
Professor David FairlieBioinspired design of solar biotechnology systems
Professor Ben HankamerBugs and drugs
Professor Glenn KingPharmacology of marine toxins
Professor Richard LewisNeuropeptide research
Associate Professor Markus MuttenthalerCombinatorial chemistry and molecular design
Associate Professor Mark SmythePain pathways
Professor Irina Vetter
General enquiries
+61 7 3346 2222
imb@imb.uq.edu.au
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