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Dr Drew Neavin
Senior Research Fellow & Group LeaderInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Researcher biography:Dr Drew Neavin is an NHMRC Early Leadership Fellow and the Group Leader of the Context-dependent Genetics Lab at the University of Queensland Institute for Molecular Bioscience.
Drew integrates statistical genetics with stem cell platforms and single-cell technologies to expand our understanding of genetic regulation across different contexts. She helped establish "village-in-a-dish" stem cell systems that enable high-throughput stem cell culture while reducing technical variability by co-culturing induced pluripotent stem cell lines from hundreds of individuals in a single cell culture dish. She applies this system along with other experimental models to study genetic regulation. She works across multiple disease systems with focuses in neuopsychiatric and cardiac, with a special focus on genetic modulation of drug response. She is keen to build large-scale resources that enable population genetics interrogation that consider diversity across multiple different axes.
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Mr Benjamin Wu-Yang Khoo
Casual Senior Research AssistantInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Students
Ms Kate Topsfield
StudentInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Lewis Group
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Emeritus Professor Richard Lewis
Emeritus ProfessorInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Body:Highlights
A fascination for chemistry, marine biology and zoology led Professor Richard Lewis to become expert in analyzing and characterizing venoms. He is best known for using mass spectroscopy and novel bioassays to characterise conotoxins, which are small venom peptides from predatory marine snails, and using molecular pharmacology to enhance molecules for drug development.
The focus of Professor Lewis’s research is discovering and developing new treatments for chronic pain. Several conotoxins discovered by his research team have been taken into the clinic, including Xen2174 for severe pain.
The potential to change people’s lives is a key motivator for Professor Lewis. By making discoveries on the scientific frontier, he hopes to change the landscape for further research, and whenever possible help deliver better treatments for chronic pain sufferers.
Professor Lewis is Director of IMB’s Centre for Pain Research, and leader of a Program Grant in Pain Research from the NHMRC.
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