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    Professor Mark Blaskovich

    Director of Translation, IMB
    Professorial Research Fellow & GL & IMB Director of Translation of Institute for Molecular Bioscience
    Institute for Molecular Bioscience
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    Professor Mark Blaskovich is an antibiotic hunter and Director of Translation at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at The University of Queensland. He is co-founder and former Director of the Centre for Superbug Solutions at IMB.

    A medicinal chemist with 15 years of industrial drug development experience prior to his academic career, Mark has been developing new antibiotics to treat drug resistant pathogens and using modified antibiotics to detect bacterial infections. He is a co-founder of the Community for Open Antimicrobial Drug Discovery, a global antibiotic discovery initiative, and has led a number of UQ-industry collaborations focused on antibiotic development. An inventor on eleven patent families, Mark has developed drugs in clinical trials, published more than eighty research articles, and received over $10m in grant funding.

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    Research Officer
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    Institute for Molecular Bioscience
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    Research Fellow
    Institute for Molecular Bioscience
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    Doctor Anthony Verderosa is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) at the University of Queensland (UQ). Verderosa is the head researcher of a team dedicated to the design, synthesis, and microbiological evaluation of antibiotic conjugates. Their project involves synthetically linking different antibiotics and/or antibiotic adjuvants to generate novel dual-acting antimicrobial conjugates to treat resistant bacterial infections. Verderosa is an early career researcher (ECR) with expertise in synthetic organic chemistry, molecular bacteriology, antimicrobial testing, drug development, and biofilm remediation. His PhD (2020) involved transdisciplinary work (chemistry/microbiology) that focused on discovering and developing nitroxide-functionalised antibiotics - new drugs for treating and eradicating microbial biofilms. After submitting his PhD, Verderosa accepted a Postdoctoral Research position in molecular bacteriology and bacterial pathogenesis, where he developed new methods and strategies for tackling antimicrobial resistance.

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    Mr Ye Yuan

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    Global Challenges Scholar
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    Mx Lily Kenchington-Evans

    Global Challenges Scholar
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    Miss Xiaowen Xu

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    Ms Rhiannon Baxter

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    Marut Jain

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  • 23 Mar 2024
    IMB Group Leader, Professor John Fraser joins Dr Iris Depaz, Professor Alan Rowan and Professor Avril Robertson in conversation about how biotechnology is transforming the world of medicine.
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  • 20 Jun 2024
    Join Dr Madi Maddugoda as she walks you through the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and describes the different research areas and technical capabilities.
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People have known for thousands of years that parents pass traits to their children, but it is only relatively recently that our technology has caught up to our curiosity, enabling us to delve into the mystery of how this inheritance occurs, and the implications for predicting, preventing and treating disease.

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