Dr Brendan Wilkinson
Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry - School of Science and Technology
Biography
I obtained my PhD from the Griffith University in 2007 under the supervision of Dr Todd Houston and Prof. Sally-Ann Poulsen. My PhD thesis led to the discovery of a new class of carbohydrate-based carbonic anhydrase inhibitor as promising anti-cancer drug leads. Later that year, I took up a post-doctoral appointment working with Prof. Antony Fairbanks at the University of Oxford on the development of novel anti-tuberculosis agents and glycosylation strategies.
In 2009, I returned to Australia to join Prof. Richard Payne’s group at The University of Sydney, where I worked on the development of new strategies for the synthesis of Mucin-type glycoproteins, the total synthesis of homogeneous antifreeze glycoproteins, and the discovery of glycopeptide-based cancer vaccines.
In 2013, I was awarded the prestigious ARC DECRA fellowship which I undertook at Monash University. Whilst at Monash, my research was focused on supramolecular chemistry and biomimetic self-assembly.
In 2016, I was appointed as a lecturer in Chemistry at UNE, and as senior lecturer in 2019.
