BrisScience: Nature’s Bounty – Using Traditional Medicine to Find New Drugs
From morphine to antibiotics, nature provides us with an incredible bounty of medicinal compounds.
UQ's Professor Jo Blanchfield is on the cutting edge, helping bring these natural compounds into modern medicine. Her research explores chemicals in plants and fungi used in traditional medical practices and bush foods in Australia and around the world. These can then be translated into amazing new medicinal compounds.
You're invited to join Professor Blanchfield at our next BrisScience, as she delves into her incredible research, revealing what natural compounds might soon change medicine.
Professor Jo Blanchfield is a professor of chemistry in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences at The University of Queensland. She did a BSc and PhD at UQ studying organic and medicinal chemistry and after several years working in USA and Canberra, returned to take us a teaching and research academic position at UQ.
Date: | Monday 7 September 2026 |
Time: | 6:30-7:30pm (light refreshments 7.30-8pm) |
Location: | Auditorium 1, State Library of Queensland, |
Admission: | Free, registration required |
Parking: | Via credit card at the State Library of Queensland car park gate for a flat fee of $18 |
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