PhD Scholarship: Targeting Programmed Axon Death in Neurodegenerative Disorders

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Company Description The research will be undertaken within Professor Thomas Ve’s supportive research team at the Institute for Biomedicine and Glycomics, GU Gold Coast Campus. The Institute for Biomedicine and Glycomics is the flagship biomedical research institute at Griffith University. It fosters a culture of excellence in a unique research environment, aiming to accelerate biomedical and biological discoveries with translational benefits to create a brighter future for all. The institute have state-of-the-art facilities for NMR, protein crystallography, interaction analysis (SPR, ITC), separation sciences (HPLC, LC-MS), organic synthesis, high throughput screening (Compounds Australia) and advanced mass spectrometry. Professor Ve’s research is supported by NHMRC and ARC funding. The research is focused on understanding how the essential metabolite NAD+ and related nucleotide products trigger nerve fibre (axon) degeneration in response to injury and disease and how they activate immune responses in plants and bacteria upon pathogen infection. The successful applicant will be based at our Gold Coast campus. As Griffith is a multi-site University you may be required to work across...