B Science (Hons), PhD

Contact details for Dr Rohan Davis

• Group Leader, Drug Discovery and Design, Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies

Biography

Dr Rohan Davis obtained his B Science with Honours from the University of Melbourne (1992), and subsequently gained several years of industry experience working for AstraZeneca, Griffith University. Awarded a PhD from Griffith University in 2001, he then obtained 2 years post-doctoral experience at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. Returning to Griffith University in 2003 Dr Davis is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Eskitis Institute of Cell and Molecular Therapies.

Dr Davis's research interests include:

1. Biodiscovery involving high throughput screening against molecular targets, isolation and structure elucidation of bioactive natural products
2. Design and synthesis of combinatorial libraries based on natural product scaffolds