Team

Meet our scientists

Leadership

Prof Tim Mercer

Director & Group Leader

Dr Seth Cheetham

Deputy Director & Group Leader

mRNA Manufacture

Dr Rachel Chang

Business Operations

Dr Natasha Chaudhary

Laboratory Operations

Ms Hannah Tompkins

mRNA Production

Mr Abhishek Kulkarni

mRNA Production

Ms Amatulla Nashikwala

mRNA Production

mRNA Design & Analysis

Dr Helen Gunter

mRNA Analysis Lead

Ms Sneha Lakshman Das

mRNA Analysis

Dr Magdalena Budzinska

Bioinformatics

Ms Dini Hidayai

Master Student

mRNA Research

Ms Nissa Carrodus

Laboratory Manager

Dr Laura Leighton

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr Daniel Nielsen

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr Umanda Madugalle

Senior Research Assistant

Ms Maria Victorova

PhD Student

Ms Eunice Gee

PhD Student

Ms Bettina Dietmair

PhD Student

Mr Theodore Leonard

PhD Student

Mr Thornwit Chavalparit

PhD Student

Mr Mariano Aguilar Vela

PhD Student

Ms Asmaad Al-Basheer

Master's Student

Mr Venkat Sai Appanabhotla

Masters Student

Research Laboratories

Level 3, AIBN (#75)
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, QLD 4072

Manufacture Facility

Level 6, Translational Research Institute
37 Kent St
Woolloongabba, QLD 4102

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Phone

+61 7 3443 7368

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