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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

I lead Amgen Australia’s Government Affairs, Policy and Advocacy activities focusing on opportunities to ensure Australians can gain access to the best medicines to treat their illnesses, and get the care and support necessary to optimize outcomes.

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

I worked cross-functionally across multiple divisions of AbbVie to develop and execute high profile external opportunities including with commercial, market access, public affairs and medical colleagues. Proven project management and advocacy capabilities mixed with solid understanding of the PBS, biologic medicines and innovation policy. Developed.

Sydney, Australia

Canberra, Australia

Canberra, Australia

I work in the Commercialisation Policy Branch and focus on policy measures to enhance capital flows into early stage innovative businesses. I am interested in the changing nature of early stage investments and policies that enable firms with disruptive business models to rapidly gain scale. I'm intrigued by the market-failure and system-failure debate, and.

Supported the Taskforce developing the Industry Innovation and Competitiveness Agenda. My role was focused around industry and research policy and in preparing the Agenda's cabinet submission.

Canberra

I worked in the Sectoral Analysis Section within Manufacturing Performance Branch in Industry Division. My job was based on the strategic analysis of the manufacturing industry.

Canberra

I worked within three divisions during the 2013 graduate program including AusIndustry, Industry and Innovation and Manufacturing. In the final rotation I developed a novel methodology to quantitatively asses Commonwealth business assistance into the chemicals and plastics industry. I developed mapping capability using the Google Maps api to examine.

University Of Queensland

My PhD was based on the development of an assay for the amplification-free detection of viral nucleic acids. The research was focused on inventing a viral diagnostic platform for resource limited environments, such as sub-Sahara Africa. The research produced three articles published in peer reviewed journals and several conference presentations. I.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

I held the Technology Lead position for Lab901´s contribution to ITI Techmedia´s multi-parameter prototype Point-of-Care diagnostic platform. I managed a dynamic and highly motivated team of 12 scientist and engineers split across a number of disciplines including mechanical, polymer, optical and microfluidic engineering and assay development. I was.

Melbourne, Australia

I was a research engineer developing polymeric lab-on-a-chip microfluidic systems using laser micromachining. Successfully developed microfluidic devices with pneumatic pumps and valves for automating biology.

Graduate Certificate Innovation And Technology Management

Activities and Societies: Technology and Innovation Strategy, Entrepreneurship & New Venture Management of Research & Development.

Certificate Iv In Government

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Bionanotechnology

Masters In Engineering, Microsystems Technology, 90

Bachelor Of Science, Genetics

Activities and Societies: AIESEC