A/Prof Ben Greatrex
Associate Professor - Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law; School of Health
Biography
Ben completed a PhD at The University of Adelaide in 2004, working with Professor Dennis Taylor on the chemistry of organic peroxides and reactions that can be driven by the high energy peroxide bond. He then travelled to Wellington, NZ where he spent 3.5 years working with the carbohydrate research group of Professor Richard Furneaux on commercial drug discovery and competitive grant funded projects. These projects included the synthesis of glycodendrimers and saponins as vaccine adjuvants and the synthesis of some purine analogues. Ben then spent several years at the University of Wollongong working with Professor Stephen Pyne on a Johnson and Johnson project using natural products as privileged scaffolds for drug discovery before joining UNE in 2010.
