Meiling Han 14th Lorne Infection and Immunity 2024

Meiling Han

Dr Meiling Han is a group leader and an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA fellow at Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University. She obtained her PhD in pharmacology and pharmaceutical science from the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science in 2018. Dr Han's research focuses on addressing the urgent issue of antimicrobial resistance, which poses a significant threat to the global public health. Currently, she leads an independent research team dedicated to unravelling the mechanisms by which bacteria adapt to confer antibiotic resistance, with the goal of identifying new drug targets for the development of much-needed novel antimicrobial therapeutics. Dr Han’s research has yielded significant achievements, as evidenced by >60 publications in prestigious journals such as Nature Communication, Nature Microbiology, and Cell Reports. She has also secured numerous research grants, including the ARC Discovery Early Career Research Awards, ARC Discovery Project Grants, NHMRC Ideas Grants, and the Rod Rickard Fellowship from Australian Academy of Science, totalling over AU$ 3 million.

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