June 20, 2025 4:25 am
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Professional Background: Dr Nigel Lengkeek is the Principal Radiochemist in the Department of Nuclear at Liverpool Hospital and the Manager of the Liverpool Hospital Cyclotron Facility, ensuring the reliable daily manufacturing of routine clinical radiopharmaceuticals and supporting theranostic clinical trials and research. Nigel completed his PhD at UWA, moving to ANSTO in 2010. During his 13 years at ANSTO he worked on a broad range of projects covering radiopharmaceutical discovery and development, radioisotope generators, radioactive medical devices and radiopharmaceutical translation,... Read More
August 5, 2024 5:46 am
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Professional Background: Professor Philip Chan is the Associate Head (Postgraduate Research) at the School of Chemistry, Monash University and “New Methodologies for Radiofluorination” theme leader of the ARC Development of Advanced Radiochemical Technologies (DART) Industrial Transformation Training Centre. Since graduating with his D.Phil. degree from the University of Oxford, Philip has developed over 115 new catalytic methods for the concise and efficient synthesis of complex molecules and their applications in other fields ranging from medicine to materials science. He has... Read More
August 5, 2024 5:43 am
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Professional Background: Prof Peter Rutledge is Head of the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney. He completed his BSc and MSc degrees at the University of Auckland and a DPhil at Oxford. He held a postdoctoral fellowship and college lectureship at the Dyson Perrins Lab in Oxford, then a lectureship in the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology in Dublin, before relocating to Sydney with his group in 2006. Research Interests: The Rutledge Group’s research spans antimicrobial discovery... Read More
August 5, 2024 5:15 am
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Professional Background: Dr Karen Alt is laboratory head of the NanoTheranostics lab at the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases. Karen is widely recognised as a leader in molecular imaging for her research which employs innovative, multidisciplinary approaches and unique tools to enhance diagnostic imaging in various field of diseases. Research Interests: As a trained immunologist with more than 10 years of experience in health sciences research, Dr Alt is specialized in protein engineering, combining novel enzymatic and chemical protein modification... Read More
August 5, 2024 4:58 am
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Professional Background: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Klaus Kopka (HZDR, Germany) is a radiopharmaceutical chemist and holds a full professorship (W3) for Bioinorganic and Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry at Technical University Dresden, Germany, which is combined with the directorship of the Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf [HZDR]. Between 2013 and 2019 he held a W3 position at Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Germany. At the same time he was head of the Division of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry at the German Cancer Research Center [DKFZ] in... Read More
August 5, 2024 4:54 am
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Professional Background: Prof. Kellie Tuck is a T&R academic in the School of Chemistry and is the Associate Head – International Affairs. She obtained her PhD from the University of Adelaide and subsequently held postdoctoral research positions at the University of South Australia, Australia, and the University of Cambridge, UK, before returning to Australia. She is engaged in a number of interdisciplinary research programs that combine organic chemistry with analytical chemistry, chemical engineering, and/or biology. Research Interests: Her group’s research... Read More
August 5, 2024 12:53 am
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Professional Background: Associate Professor David Turner works in the School of Chemistry at Monash University. After completing his undergraduate and PhD at King’s College London, he held successive fellowships (ARC and AINSE) at Monash before being appointed to staff. Research Interests: The Turner lab centres on metallosupramolecular and coordination chemistry. In particular they are currently interested in chiral coordination cages, providing unique nano-environments sheltered from bulk solution. DART Centre projects focus on radiolabelling cages to act as delivery or therapeutic... Read More
August 5, 2024 12:44 am
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Professional Background: Craig Hutton is a Professor in the School of Chemistry and Associate Dean (Infrastructure) in the Faculty of Science at The University of Melbourne. He undertook his undergraduate and PhD degrees at the University of Adelaide before completing postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley and The University of Melbourne. He started his independent academic career at The University of Sydney before returning to The University of Melbourne. Research Interests: The Hutton Lab research interests include the... Read More
