tim

 

Welcome to my webpage! I am a scientist and businessperson with experience in the academic, corporate and small business sectors, currently working in the pharmaceutical industry.

 

 Current Positions

  • Medical Science Liaison – Immunology Biosimilars at MSD Australia & New Zealand – Victoria/South Australia

 

Previous positions

  • Medical Liaison – Healthy Sleep Solutions (a subsidiary of Air Liquide Healthcare) – Adelaide, South Australia (2014-2016)
  • Scientist – Lysosomal Diseases Research Unit (LDRU), Women’s and Children’s Hospital – Adelaide, South Australia (2004-2009)
  • Research Assistant – Liver Group, University College London (2001-2003)
  • Research Assistant – Lung Laboratory, Department of Human Physiology, Flinders University Medical School – Adelaide, South Australia (2000)

 

Education

PhD (Biochemistry, Cell Biology) – University of Adelaide (2009)

BSc (Hons) (Human Physiology) – Flinders University (2000)

 

 Selected Publications

  • Popular media

Got a PhD in science? Now what?  ABC Science March 4, 2015

Six ways to improve young scientists’ career prospects  ABC Science February 26, 2014

Hanging up their labcoats: Australia’s new brain drain ABC Science January 16, 2014

  • Scientific

Intrathecal recombinant human 4-sulfatase reduces accumulation of glycosaminoglycans in dura of mucopolysaccharidosis VI cats. Pediatr Res. 2012 Jan;71(1):39-45 (co-author)

Determination of urinary oligosaccharides by high-performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry: Application to Hunter syndrome. Anal Biochem. 2010 Jul 15;402(2):113-20 (leading author)

Repeated intrathecal injections of recombinant human 4-sulphatase remove dural storage in mature mucopolysaccharidosis VI cats primed with a short-course tolerisation regimen. Mol Genet Metab. 2010 Feb;99(2):132-41 (co-author)

Minimum substrate requirements of endoglycosidase activities toward dermatan sulfate by electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry. Glycobiology. 2008 Dec;18(12):1119-28 (leading author)