Congratulations to the winners of our third round of Fresh Ideas Grants!

The Fresh Ideas Grants (FIG) scheme is a competitive grant process open to all Centre Postdoctoral Research Fellows. It aims to create a springboard to independence for our Research Fellows by creating an opportunity for them to drive their own research ideas. 

• Dr Dhanya Karipal Padinjare Veedu – Exploring the multimodal electrochemical reactivity of acyl hydrazides to uncover peptide structure-function/permeability relationships   

• Dr Jeffrey Mak – Novel method for tuning peptide covalent warhead selectivity 

• Dr Himaya Siddhihalu Wickrama Hewage – Characterization of endosomal membrane lipid composition to generate rational models for peptide-endosomal membrane interaction studies  

• Dr Esteban Suarez – Fresh Ideas Electrochemical Strategies for Site-Specific Functionalization of Self-Assembled Coiled Coils: A Sustainable Approach to Peptide Engineering