Research Fellow, Therapeutics Research Centre, School of Pharmacy, University of South Australia
Liposomes in transdermal drug delivery; Nanoparticle pharmacodynamics using in vivo microscopy
PhD Bioorganic Chemistry, Australian National University
BSc Chemistry double major, University of Adelaide
I was an undergraduate in Adelaide before completing postgraduate qualifications in Canberra. I then worked in Southampton and San Francisco for a total of four years on projects involving enzymology, drug design and synthetic chemistry. I worked at the University of Queensland (UQ) between 2001 and 2009 including five years with my current research group, the Therapeutics Research Centre (TRC). In 2009, the TRC added a new lab in UniSA which collaborates with the original group at UQ.
Staff at the Therapeutics Research Centre use clinical intravital
microscopy:
● to monitor nanoparticle
pharmacokinetics in skin and liver
● in the assessment and treatment of
human disease and animal models of disease
● analytical chemistry and
pharmacokinetics
Robertson TA, Sanchez WY, Roberts MS. “Are commercially available
nanoparticles safe when applied to the skin?” Journal of Biomedical
Nanotechnology (2010) JBN-09-SN-OP-018 accepted for publication.
Roberts MS, Roberts MJ, Robertson TA, Sanchez W, Thorling C, Zou Y, Zhao X,
Becker W, Zvyagin AV. “In vitro and in vivo imaging of xenobiotic transport
in human skin and in the rat liver.” Journal of Biophotonics
1(6):478-493 (2008).