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Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Providing transdermal patches that deliver B vitamins, iron, melatonin and pain relief. www.innovatingnature.com.au

Glen Iris, Victoria, AU

• TUI (The Upcycling Initiative) Foods will champion Australian grown produce, utilising Australian technology and innovation. As TUI's innovation scientist I was excited to play a key role helping to create new products.
• Created several in-house documents on ingredients with an upcycling future using current research data on each.
• Identified the value of an oat fibre as a new functional ingredient.
• Developed an academic network across four Universities.
• Created a cosmetic cream with wound healing, ant-inflammatory and pain relief activities using plant-based oils.

• Working with innovative Australian farmers and scientists to create simple, plant-based products.HIGHLIGHTS:
• Created a business with an Australian farmer and scientists to create simple, yet powerful, plant-based products.
• I identified the prebiotic-activity in oil seed-based fibres that remained once the oil had been pressed.
• This knowledge was used to create new powerful prebiotics for people and horses.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

• The Cannabis Co was focused on providing retail consumers with safe, vegan, organic, sustainable cannabis and hemp products and services. As Australian and NZ laws change new products containing CBD will result in.
• Created hempseed oil for pets by using a smaller bottle with a dropper, became the best seller and most reviewed product.
• Wrote blogs and eBooks about cannabis, hemp using current scientific knowledge.
• Created the world’s first terpene gins that were widely reported by the Australian and international media. https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/the-cannabis-co-releases-second-hemp-gin-following-success-of-the-myrcene-2.
• The first gin won second prize at the San Francisco Spirit Awards in 2019. https://www.cannabiscompany.com.au.

Parkville, Victoria, AU

Mass Spectrometry-based project to identify biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in serum.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

In 2011, I moved my laboratory from the Bio21 Institute to the Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne following an invitation from the Head of Department.Achievements➢ Developed new collaborations resulting in several new publications, a Masters student project and two successful national grant applications totaling $730,000. ➢ Invited in 2013.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

In 2005, I was recruited from St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research to the Bio21 Institute, the University of Melbourne to both further my research into metabolic disease and to assist in the establishment of protein analysis platform technologies.Achievements➢ Established the Bio21 Institute’s proteomics training and visitor’s facility in 2005 and.

Fitzroy, Victoria, AU

Following two years of post-doctoral studies in Canada, I returned to St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research as a CJ Martin Fellow to apply the techniques I learnt in Canada to the study the enzyme I identified during my PhD studies.Achievements➢ In 2001 I was awarded a NHMRC RD Wright Fellowship to further my studies on AMPK research.➢ Discovered.

Fitzroy, Victoria, AU

My two years in the late and GREAT Tony Pawson's laboratory resulted in the identification of a part of proteins that were important for axon guidance in the developing brain that joined the proteins together. Two publications and one patent resulted from this work.

Fitzroy, Victoria, AU

Discovered that AMPK could regulate the enzyme known as endothelial nitric oxide (eNOS) by phosphorylation.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biochemistry And Molecular Biology

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc. Hon), Biochemistry

High School