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Professor Mark Blaskovich
Director of Translation & Professorial Research Fellow & Group LeaderInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Researcher biography: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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Ms Soumya Ramu
Institute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Ms Maite Amado
Floor ManagerInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Miss Holly Floyd
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Mr Abdulmujeeb Onawole
Associate Research Assistant/TechnicianInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Ms Michelle Novais de Paula
Senior Research AssistantInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Sadaf Khan
External PhD StudentsResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Mr Ye Yuan
PhD studentInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Ms Paulina Hall
Global Challenges ScholarInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Mx Lily Kenchington-Evans
Global Challenges ScholarInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Miss Xiaowen Xu
Researcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Ms Rhiannon Baxter
PhD studentInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Marut Jain
External PhD StudentsResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Vetter Group
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Professor Irina Vetter
Director for Higher Degree Research & NHMRC Leadership Fellow & Group LeaderInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Researcher biography:I am an NHMRC Leadership Fellow with joint apointments at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) and School of Pharmacy, UQ. My research interests lie in the fields of peripheral pain mechanisms, target identification and analgesic drug discovery. I investigate the contribution of ion channels to sensory neuronal physiology using highly subtype-selective toxins isolated from venomous animals with the aim to develop novel analgesics with improved efficacy and tolerability.
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Associate Professor Irina Vetter has a strong background in neuropharmacology, pain models, toxinology and high-throughput screening. Currently her primary research interests lie in the fields of peripheral pain mechanisms, target identification, biodiscovery of venom peptide ion channel modulators and analgesic drug discovery.
Associate Professor Vetter has always been fascinated by how we perceive the world around us, in particular, the role of sensory neurons in the body. Sensory neurons are an intricate network of nerve cells that convert external stimuli from the environment into messages within the body, like pain. Her research is demystifying the different pathways that contribute to pain in various disease states. She is using biomedical research and pharmacology to develop pain treatments from venoms and toxins.
Associate Professor Vetter is an ARC Future Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre for Pain Research at The University of Queensland. She is a registered pharmacist and has worked in hospital as well as community pharmacy. She obtained her PhD in 2007 from the School of Pharmacy, and conducted postdoctoral studies as an NHMRC postdoctoral fellow under Prof Geoffrey Goodhill at the Queensland Brain Institute and under Prof Richard J Lewis at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience in the areas of axon guidance and venom peptide pharmacology
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Dr Hana Starobova
Higher degree by research (PhD) student & NHMRC Emerging Leadership FellowInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Researcher biography:Dr Hana Starobova is a pharmacist and NHMRC research fellow at the Sensory Neuropharmacology Group at the University of Queensland (UQ). She works under the mentorship of Prof. Vetter, and as an early career researcher, she is working toward an independent research career as a group leader. She obtained her PhD in 2020 from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, UQ, and continued here to conduct studies as a Children Hospital Foundation Fellow (2021-2023) in the areas of cancer therapy-induced adverse and late effects with the main focus on neuropathies. Over the past four years, she has developed a research program focusing on the understanding of cancer therapy-induced adverse and late effects with a special interest in children, and established innovative transcriptomic and microscopy pipelines, in vitro assays, adult and juvenile models of adverse and late effects following mono- and combination chemotherapy and radiotherapy, assays for the assessment of adverse effects including cognition and neuropathies, as well as cancer models. Knowledge impact arising from her research program has been disseminated in 18 peer-reviewed publications, having together attracted >1,100 citations (h-index 15, i10-index 18, Google Scholar, May 2024).
Mr Theo Crawford
Visiting ResearcherInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Dr Vanessa Schendel
Postdoctoral Research FellowInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Mr Ben Cristofori-Armstrong
Higher degree by research (PhD) studentResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Ms Thi Ngoc Hue Tran
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Ms Wanlin Chen
Researcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Ms Naiqi Shi
Researcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Mr Ammar Alshammari
PhD studentInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Miss Priyaa Purushotham Vasan
Researcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Ms Svetlana Shatunova
PhD studentInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Miss Nicolette Tay
PhD studentInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Ms Ashvriya Thapa
PhD studentInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Ms Lucinda Walker
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