Faculty Perspectives on Using Teaching with Schrödinger

Our Speaker

Jack Flanagan, Associate Professor, Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre

Jack Flanagan obtained his BSc(Hons) in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and was awarded a PhD scholarship to study at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Australia where he investigated structure function relationships for the glutathione transferase class of detoxication enzyme in the laboratory of Prof Philip Board. After a postdoctoral position researching structure function relationships in the major drug metabolising cytochromes P450 under Prof Roland Wolf at the Biomedical Research Centre, University of Dundee, United Kingdom, he took up a Howard Florey Centenary Fellowship at the Institute for Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Australia looking at inhibitor discovery for the human hematopoietic prostaglandin D2 synthase enzyme. Currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology at the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, Jacks research involves the use of protein structure, computer based methods, biochemical and cell signaling assays to discover new disease modifying compounds.