Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery (GRIDD) - a world-class research institute tackling the world's most devastating diseases.

Griffith University, Australia
Joined December 2011
The Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes (@AAMRI) has launched a new website that showcases Australia’s Medical Research Discoveries. We are proud to partner with AAMRI to share a NatureBank discovery from @Griffith_Uni @GRIDD_GU lnkd.in/gHe4nUgR
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Today is Rare Disease Day. GRIDD researchers Dr Alex Cristino, Prof Vicky Avery and Prof Alan Mackay-Sim are collaborating with UQ researchers in a quest to help children living with SPG56. For more visit ourmoonsmission.org
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Day1 of our new platform build. @HighResBio and @cmpdsaus have been working hard to get to this day...#watchthisspace @Cancer_Research @TIA_Aust @GRIDD_GU @AdvanceQld
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GRIDD PhD candidate @stef_buccholz was selected from an international field of applicants as the winner of the @CSLBehring CSL Plasma Protein Purification Challenge after a pitch and interview. Congratulations Stefanie!! #WomenInSTEM
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We recruiting a marketing campaign manager to join the #WSFQ team who will be responsible for developing and implementing marketing activity and campaigns for World Science Festival Brisbane and World Science Festival Queensland. Apply now: bit.ly/3BvhZVh
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.@GRIDD_GU has become the new home for a uniquely curated library of 329,000 chemical compounds used to advance drug research in Australia. The Australian Drug Discovery Library is being relocated from Scotland to the GRIDD @CmpdsAus facility: news.griffith.edu.au/2021/08…
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Simon Collett from @RMIT, @Iza_Milogrodzka from @MonashChemEng and Donna McNeale from @GRIDD_GU will be our 3 student panellists. Come and support them and hear other amazing talks at our symposium! More info: acis.wildapricot.org/colloid… Register: acis.wildapricot.org/event-4…
GRIDD is proud to foster the development of the next generation of medical researchers. Here is what some of our PhD cohort has been up to in 2021 xitter.cf/i/events/1377190530430… @Griffith_Uni @GradResearch_au @LSQld @ScienceAU @GRIDD_GU #HDRimpact #MedicalResearch #PhD #research #STEM
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PhD candidate Micol Venturi's research project aims to a find better way to make antigens in plants and to manipulate plant metabolism for vaccine production #MolecularFarming #HDRimpact
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"Brain Traffic" & Parkinson's Disease! 3 minute thesis finalist for @GU_Sciences Melissa Hill delivers a terrific presentation her project that aims to better understand the underlying cellular changes that contribute to Parkinson’s disease development. Congratulations Melissa!
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Very proud of PhD candidate @StefanieBuchho4 for making the @GU_Sciences 3MT final. A very elegant presentation on her PhD project 'Revolutionising Drug Manufacture"
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Please join GRIDD tomorrow for a seminar from Dr Cathyryne Manner BIO Ventures for Global Health @BIOVenture WIPO Re:Search: Catalyzing Global Collaboration & Innovation to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases, Malaria, and Tuberculosis. Zoom Mtg ID: 913 3981 1359. Passcode: 362999
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Resistance to antimalarial drugs is a huge challenge for malaria treatment. PhD student Yunan Qian is investigating the antimalarial drug proguanil to better understand how it works & how resistance develops. Her hope is to improve how proguanil is used to treat people #HDRimpact
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Native mass spectrometry (MS) is a robust way to study interactions between biologically active small molecules & their protein targets. PhD candidate Yushu Gu hopes to use this to develop an advanced target ID approach for soluble protein complexes & membrane proteins #HDRimpact
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Our next webinar features Dr Stephen Wood from @GRIDD_GU speaking about Parkinson's disease research. He is a cell and molecular biologist who has studied neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration using stem cell models. Register at: bit.ly/DrStephenWood
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Griffith University has partnered with the National Indigenous Science Education Program (NISEP), Macquarie University, to deliver @NISEP01 events within Logan. Dr Emma Barns held a #STEMengagement training workshop at #GRIDD @donna_mc @Jesssmithy13 practicing new skills
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3rd year PhD candidate Zennia Jean Gonzaga at the Centre for Cell Factories and Biopolymers at #GRIDD is using a tailored engineered cell factory to self-assemble particles displaying candidate P. aeruginosa antigens. #HDRimpact #research #biotechnology #phd @GRIDD_GU 1/2
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Vaccine development against the multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa has been studied for decades but still no vaccine is available for human use. Zennia’s research could lead to a P. aeruginosa vaccine eliminating the problem of antibiotic resistance of the pathogen. 2/2
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