Biological and Medicinal Chemistry
Research
The School currently conducts research in: biological macromolecules; biophysics; biotechnology; metalloenzymes and model complexes; molecular nutrition; pharmaceutical chemistry
People
- Muthupandian Ashokkumar, biofunctional materials, protein microspheres for drug and flavour delivery, value-added food and dairy ingredients
- Stephen Best, electrochemistry, spectroelectrochemistry
- Paul Donnelly, metal chemistry in biology, medicine and synthesis
- Ken Ghiggino, fluorescence analysis, fluorescence probes
- Craig Hutton, lysine biosynthesis, enzyme inhibitors, peptides, peptide-mimetics
- Guy Jameson, iron containing metalloenzymes, kinetics and spectroscopy, Mössbauer spectroscopy
- Spas Kolev, transport and uptake mechanism in metal hyperaccumulating plants
- Megan Maher, cellular metal homeostasis, metal transport across membranes, metals in mitochondrial complex assembly, electron transfer, structural biology
- Richard O'Hair, mass spectrometry of biomolecules
- Gavin Reid, biomolecular structure analysis, protein structural biology
- Mark Rizzacasa, medicinal chemistry
- Frances Separovic, biophysics, membranes, lipid-peptide interactions, structural biology, biological solid-state NMR
- Trevor Smith, fluorescence imaging and ultrafast spectroscopy of biomolecules
- Tony Wedd, molecular nutrition, copper transport proteins, metal transport in hyperaccumulating plants
- Jonathan White, DNA-binding radiomodifiers
- Uta Wille, radical reactions, synthetic methodology, photochemistry, electrochemistry, radical induced damage to biomolecules, computational chemistry
- Spencer Williams, carbohydrate processing enzymes, sulfatases, tuberculosis, leishmania, cardiovascular disease, medicinal chemistry

Professor Muthupandian Ashokkumar
Professor
Email: masho@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 279, Chemistry Building, Parkville Campus
Address: School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 7090

Dr Stephen Best
Senior Lecturer
Email: spbest@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 359, Chemistry Building, Parkville Campus
Address: School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 6505

Professor Paul Donnelly
Professor
Email: pauld@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 506, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute
Address: Bio21 Institute, School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2399

Professor Ken Ghiggino
Masson Professor of Chemistry
Email: ghiggino@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 358, Chemistry East Building, Parkville Campus
Address: School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 8939

Dr Yuning Hong
McKenzie Fellow
Email: yuningh@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room B09, Chemistry East Building, Parkville Campus
Address: School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 9035 8129

Professor Craig A Hutton
Professor
Email: chutton@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 502, Bio21 Institute, Parkville Campus
Address: Bio21 Institute, 30 Flemington Road, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2393

Associate Professor Guy Jameson
Associate Professor
Email: guy.jameson@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 486, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, 30 Flemington Road, Parkville
Address: School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 7098

Professor Spas Kolev
Professor
Email: s.kolev@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 374, Chemistry Building, Parkville Campus
Address: School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 7931

Associate Professor Megan Maher
Associate Professor
Email: megan.maher@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 473, Bio21 Institute, Parkville Campus
Address: 30 Flemington Road, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 9035 7451

Professor Richard O'Hair
Professor
Email: rohair@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 554, Bio21 Institute
Address: Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2452

Professor Gavin E. Reid
Professor of Bioanalytical Chemistry
Email: gavin.reid@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 431, Bio21 Institute
Address: Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2650

Professor Mark A. Rizzacasa
Professor
Email: masr@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 505, Bio21 Institute
Address: Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2397

Professor Carl Schiesser
Professor
Email: carlhs@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 538, Bio21 Institute
Address: 30 Flemington Road, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2432

Professor Frances Separovic
Professor
Email: fs@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 550, Bio21 Institute
Address: 30 Flemington Road, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 9035 7539 or +61 3 8344-7137

Professor Trevor Smith
Professor
Email: trevoras@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 269, Chemistry Building Parkville Campus
Address: School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 6272

Professor Tony Wedd
Senior Research Fellow
Email: agw@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 431, Bio21 Institute, Parkville Campus
Address: 30 Flemington Road, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2383

Professor Jonathan White
Professor
Email: whitejm@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 551, Bio21 Institute, Parkville Campus
Address: 30 Flemington Road, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2445

Professor Uta Wille
Professor
Email: uwille@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 534, Bio21 Institute, Parkville Campus
Address: 30 Flemington Road, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2425

Professor Spencer Williams
Professor
Email: sjwill@unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 532, Bio21 Institute, Parkville Campus
Address: Bio21 Institute, 30 Flemington Rd, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 2422