Group Members

Group Leader:
Professor Paul Donnelly

Post Doctoral Researchers and Research Assistants:
Dr Asif Noor
Dr Stacey Rudd
Dr Katherine Morgan
La’El Kimchi

PhD Students:
Emily McGowan
Janelle Spinks

Honours/Masters Students:
Hanrui Wu

Former PhD Students (year graduated):
Dr Michelle Ma (2010), Senior Lecturer, King’s College, London.
Dr Brett Paterson (2010), Associate Professor, University of Queensland.
Dr Katherine Price (2012), Medical Director at Wunderman Thompson.
Dr Gojko Buncic (2012), Faculty of Medicine, Paneuropean University Apeiron, Banjo Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dr SinChum Lim (2012), Senior Research Associate, Hummingbird Bioscience, Singapore.
Dr David Hayne (2014), Postdoctoral Fellow, Deakin University, Melbourne.
Dr Timothy Connell (2015), Lecturer, Deakin University, Melbourne.
Dr Andrea North (2015), Team Leader, CSIRO, Melbourne.
Dr Lachlan McInnes (2018), Head of Operations, Clarity Pharmaceuticals.
Dr Stacey Rudd (2018), Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne
Dr Ben Spyrou (2020), Advisor, RnD360 Advisory Group, Melbourne
Dr HuiJing Koay (2020), Industrial Postdoctoral Fellow, CSIRO, Melbourne
Dr Jake Rowan (2020), Teaching Support Fellow, University of Melbourne
Dr Jaclyn Lange (2020, joint with Monash), Project Lead, R&D Scientist, Clarity Pharmaceuticals.
Dr Katherine Morgan (2023), Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne

Former Post-doctoral Researchers/Research Assistants (current position):
Dr Michelle Ma (Senior Lecturer, King’s College, London)
Dr Christine Schieber (Research Scientist, IBM, Melbourne)
Dr James Hickey (Medical Doctor, Perth)
Dr Brett Paterson (Associate Professor, University of Queensland)
Dr Gojko Buncic (Faculty of Medicine, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Dr David Hayne (Post-doctoral Fellow, Deakin University, Melbourne)
Dr Andrea North (Team Leader, CSIRO, Melbourne)
Dr Karla Acevedo (Laboratory Manager, Jolimont Laboratory)
Dr Lachlan McInnes, (Head of Operations, Clarity Pharmaceuticals)
Dr HuiJing Koay, (Industrial Post-doctoral Fellow, CSIRO, Melbourne)
Scott Fletcher (Scientist, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine)
Nicholas Zia (Radiochemist, Cylotek, Melbourne)
Kathryn Szostak (Nuclear Medicine, Austin Hospital – Forensic Officer, Victoria Police)
Dr Ben Spyrou (Advisor, RnD360 Advisory Group, Melbourne)
Nathania Wei (Consultant, Climate Change, Earnst and Young, Malaysia)
Emily McGowan (PhD student, Donnelly Group, University of Melbourne)

Honours/Masters Students (year graduated):
Lachlan Smeeton (Hons) (2005)
Brett Paterson (Hons) (2005)
Siow Feng (Yui) Chong (Hons) (2006)
Chak Mng Sze (Hons) (2006)
Sin Chun Lim (Hons) (2007)
Peter (Sithorn) Mey (Hons) (2008)
Luke Moran (Hons) (2008)
David Hayne (Hons) (2009)
Timothy Connell (Hons) (2010)
Lachlan McInnes (MSc) (2013)
Stacey Rudd (MSc) (2014)
Jaclyn Lange (MSc) (2014)
Scott Fletcher (MSc) (2015)
HuiJing Koay (MSc) (2015)
Jake Rowan (Hons) (2015)
Prea Maghami (Hons) (2016)
Benjamin Nguyen (Hons) (2016)
Kathryn Szostak (MSc) (2017)
Katherine Morgan (MSc) (2018)
Samuel Graf (MSc) (2018)
Naiyun Xun (MSc) (2019)
Damon Payne (MSc) (2020)
Nathania Wei (MSc) (2021)
Emily McGowan (Hons) (2021)
La’El Kimchi (MSc) (2023)
Janelle Spinks (MSc) (2023)
Crystal Hartanto (MSc 2023)
Ellanor Goyne (MSc 2023)

3rd Year Project Students: Chem Research Project (Year):
Melissa Lo (Wan Li) (2004)
Claire McEvoy (2004)
Andrea North (2004)
Robert Borthwick (2005)
Adrienne H. W. Chan (2005)
Luke Parry (2006)
Brendan Devlin (2006)
Tim Sheldon (2006)
Yogesh Bahirwani (2007)
Andrew Vaughan (2007)
Stephen Shirbin (2008)
Chloe Miller (2008)
Timothy Connell (2009)
Suzanna Reeves (2009)
Nur Adlin Ramdzan (2009)
Edward Nagul (2010)
Kimberley McLean (2010)
Ross Newman (2011)
Nabila Lucente (2011)
Lachlan McInnes (2011)
Ashley Sutton (2012)
Jonas Wibs (2012)
Scott Fletcher (2013)
Stephen Jones (2013)
Cameron Venus (2014)
Nicholas Karoly (2014)
Kathryn Szostak (2015)
Alexander Horgan (2017)
Declan El-Hage (2018)
Yasmine Qin-Nan Dai (2018)
Emily McGowan (2019)
Nathania Wei (2019)
La’El Kimchi (2019)
Alexis Joannidis (2019)
Janelle Spinks (2020)
Natasha Salkin (2020)
Bryan Bang Wen Koh (2021)
Crysal Hartanto (2021)
Angela Qin (Amgen Scholar, 2022)
Adam Reinbold (2022)
Serfina Nouri (2022)
Riley Griffiths (Amgen Scholar, Jan 2023)
Noa Abrahams (Jan 2023)
Joe Hill (2023)
Grace Keogh (2023)

Visiting Scientists:
S. Fern Lim (2005)
Tobias Zimmermann (2005)
Robert Borthwick (2005)
Nghi Ngo (2006 and 2007)
David Hayne (2008)