Compounds Australia personnel's shared expertise comprises lab automation, sample management, drug discovery, and research principals

Our team comprises sample management experts whose overlapping skillsets contribute to each aspect of the facility operations, from infrastructure management to membership organisation service. Compounds Australia personnel are unified in support of a vision to transform sample management practice within Australia while setting service and operational benchmarks for the life sciences sector.

Management

Dr Nyssa Drinkwater

Manager

Rebecca Lang

Operations Manager

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Stephen Toms

Automation Engineer

Staff

Paris McColl

Operations Technician

Steve Harch

Operations Technician

Heather Watts

Quality Assurance Control Technician

Paulomi Doshi

Administration Officer

Strategic direction

COMPOUNDS AUSTRALIA ACADEMIC DIRECTOR

Professor Sally-Ann Poulsen

As Compounds Australia Academic Director, Professor Poulsen’s role is to provide strategic leadership and planning of facility directions, communication and advocacy within the research community nationally and internationally, and liaising with members and stakeholders.

GRIDD Director

Professor Katherine Andrews

Professor Katherine Andrews is the Director of the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery (GRIDD), which houses Compounds Australia.  Professor Andrews provides strategic advice to Compounds Australia and promotes research and industry use of the Compounds Australia libraries.

Academic Lead

Associate Professor Yun Feng

Associate Professor Yun Feng is a highly esteemed natural products chemist and the Academic Lead for Compounds Australia. As Academic Lead, Yun promotes research opportunities for Compounds Australia, both internally within Griffith University and with our external partners.

Advisory board members

Mr Mario Pennisi AM (Chair) - Company Director, Strategist

Associate Professor Yun Feng - Academic Lead, Compounds Australia, GRIDD, Griffith University

Associate Professor Rohan Davis - Academic Lead, Naturebank, GRIDD, Griffith University

Professor Mike Jennings - Deputy Director, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University

Professor Vicky Avery - Principal Research Leader, Discovery Biology, GRIDD, Griffith University

Professor Guillaume Lessene - Laboratory Head; Leader, New Medicines and Advanced Technologies Theme, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

Dr Lavinia Proctor - Director, Accelerait RDI

Professor Jonathan Baell - Director, Australian Translational Medicinal Chemistry Facility, Monash University

Dr Jack Ryan - Research Director, CSIRO Biomedical Manufacturing Program, CSIRO

Dr Mark Blaskovich - Director, Centre for Superbug Solutions, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland

Professor Michelle Burford - Dean, Research Infrastructure, Griffith University

Contact details

Phone
(07) 3735 4445
Location and postal address
Compounds Australia
Institute for Biomedicine and Glycomics
Griffith University
Building N75
Brisbane Innovation Park
Don Young Road
Nathan QLD 4111

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