Huge congrats to Jack Joyce and colleagues for their recent publication! “Interrogating Aptamer Chemical Space Through Modified Nucleotide Substitution Facilitated by Enzymatic DNA Synthesis” - Niogret - 2024 - ChemBioChem - Wiley Online Library …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

🧩Fragment Based Drug Discovery is an exciting alternative method to develop new central nervous system active drugs. DDI researchers and co-authors explore recent compelling examples of FBDD and its utility. Read the review here 🔗 bit.ly/3JDlkaZ

Celebrating Alison’s 8 year tenure in the Kassiou Group before she jets off to London! You have had a huge impact on the group, thankyou for all your work and good luck!

It has been a pleasure having you here for 8 years. I’m sure you will continue to excel.

Huge Congrats to our PhD Students, Bill, Nick and Jack on their publication - "Fragment-based drug discovery for disorders of the central nervous system: designing better drugs piece by piece".

Thrilled to see University of Sydney and UNSW joint winners of the research commercialisation award at the Financial Review. Michael Kassiou superstar @Kinoxis_tx

Here they are together 🙌🏻

Congratulations to Centre for Drug Discovery Innovation Director Michael Kassiou, joint winner of the Australian Financial Review research commercialisation award.

Congratulations to our PhD student Kris and all contributors on their new review article: "Enhancing CNS mitophagy: drug development and disease-relevant models". #Mitophagy authors.elsevier.com/a/1jxn5bg0kop1F

🔔Voting for the DDI Research Image Contest 2024 - People's Choice award closes in two days! 📲 forms.office.com/r/pXF72q962g This year fantastic snapshots from DDI members' labs have revealed the breadth and beauty of research being conducted University of Sydney 🤩 Congrats to our nominees!

Fantastic presentation given by Titch Danon this afternoon at #ORGANIC24 on mechanically interlocked drug molecules!

Kassiou & Danon Christmas Party 2024

The #MCCB2025 conference in Darwin kicks off in style, with Alessio Ciulli delivering an amazing talk on dual ligase targeting molecular glues, and their new bromocatch tag (Talk so good it blew the power out all across Darwin for a minute 😂)

An incredible performance and Welcome to Country by the Youth Mill Performing Arts Company, paying respect to the land and its Traditional Custodians at today’s RACI MCCB Conference. #MCCB2025

A great short talk by Isabel Barter today at RACI MCCB 2025 on 'Cyclic peptide natural products dysregulate the proteome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.' #MCCB2025

Great talk by Lani Davies from our lab at #MCCB2025 in Darwin on engineered nanobodies as potential theranostics!

Dr Ludovica Monti Ludovica Monti School of Chemistry | University of Melbourne delivered a keynote lecture on her recent work the use of genomics to identify novel drug targets in neglected tropical diseases at the Infectious Disease session of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute #MCCB2025

Excellent flash talk given by Andrew Montgomery today on the optimised synthesis of the radiolabeling precursor and analytical standard of [18F]-Florzolotau. #MCCB2025 #RACI