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
Staff
Angela Kavanagh
Senior Operations Officer
James Barber-Majaraj
Technical Officer
Paris McColl
Operations Technician
Steve Harch
Operations Technician
Heather Watts
Quality Assurance Control Technician
Paulomi Doshi
Administration Officer
Strategic direction
COMPOUNDS AUSTRALIA DIRECTOR
Professor Sally-Ann Poulsen
Professor Sally-Ann Poulsen is the Deputy Director of the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery (GRIDD). As Compounds Australia 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
- Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery
- Griffith University
- Building N75
- Brisbane Innovation Park
- Don Young Road
- Nathan QLD 4111