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Master of Drug Discovery and Development
Extend your knowledge of chemistry and learn how to identify and create new antibiotics, vaccines, and other drugs to support human and animal health.
Based in the Ferrier Research Institute in Gracefield, Lower Hutt, Team Hinkley's focus is natural products.
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Isolation, characterization, and modification of complex polysaccharides in human health, to direct tissue repair as a human therapeutic, and their modification to make new biopolymers suitable for use as commodity chemicals.
PhD candidates at the Ferrier Research Institute are listed below, along with their thesis title and supervisors.
| Name | Topic | Supervisors |
|---|---|---|
| Ben Clarke | Measuring Stachybotrys mycotoxins in New Zealand’s leaky buildings | Simon Hinkley, Joanne Harvey |
| Mahdieh Ghofrani | Quantifying heparan sulfate in biological systems | Simon Hinkley, Susie Carnachan |
| Cara Luiten | Determining the polysaccharide composition of New Zealand lake snow | Simon Hinkley, Tracey Bell |
| Daniel Phipps | Synthesis of heparan sulfate mimetics | Simon Hinkley, Joanne Harvey |
International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2023)
Extend your knowledge of chemistry and learn how to identify and create new antibiotics, vaccines, and other drugs to support human and animal health.