MEILING HAN
Clayton,Victoria
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
ARC DECRA Fellow, Group Leader
Biomedicine Discovery Institute
01.2023 - Current
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Biomedicine Discovery Institute
11.2017 - 12.2022
Research and Laboratory Assistant
Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
12.2014 - 11.2017
Scientist of Pharmaceutical Analysis
Daicel Chiral Technologies (China)
04.2014 - 07.2014
Research Assistant
Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry
07.2012 - 04.2014
Education
Doctor of philosophy - PharmACOLOGY & Pharmaceutical Science
Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Melbourne, Victoria11.2017
Master of Sciences - Medicinal Chemistry
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences
07.2012
Bachelor of Sciences - Applied Chemistry
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University
07.2009
Research Skills
- LC-MS-based metabolomics and lipidomics (including lipid A profiling)
- Structural characterisation of small molecules using NMR, LC/GC-MS/MS, and MALDI-TOF MS
- Neutron reflectometry
- Bioinformatics
Biography
I am a 4-year early career researcher and a group leader focused on the mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance at Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (Monash University, Australia). I completed my PhD within three years at Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science in 2018 and a master’s degree from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012 (Shanghai, China). I also obtained 2-year experience in pharmaceutical industry during 2012-2014. As a recognised emerging leader, I currently lead the antimicrobial metabolomics/lipidomics research program to characterise the molecular mechanisms of resistance to lipopeptides in Gram-negative bacteria. During this process I have supervised 7 students including 4 PhD, and secured numerous grants and awards, including a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from Australian Research Council (2023-2025), an NHMRC Ideas Grant (2024–2026), a Rod Rickards Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Science (2019), an Early Career Research Grant from the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (2019-2021), and an FMNHS Bridging Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018-2019), as well as 8 travel awards. Over the past four years I have established extensive collaborations with >15 international researchers and have been invited to give seminars in my collaborative institutions (e.g., ETH Zurich, Switzerland; the University of Glasgow, UK; and Newcastle University, UK). Recently, I was appointed as Vice Chair for the 2023 Gordon Research Seminar in Metabolomics (Italy). Moreover, I have published over 50 research articles (14 as the first author and 2 as the corresponding author) in high-impact journals (e.g., Nat Commun, Nat Microbiol and Adv Sci), and reviewed >30 papers for over 10 journals. The achievements outlined above have strengthened my determination to go further in academia and clearly indicate my potential to become a research leader in the field of antimicrobial systems pharmacology. Importantly, my research is a key part of a large antimicrobial drug discovery program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH, US), with a novel antibiotic QPX9003 under Phase-I clinical trials in the USA. My research targets an urgent global unmet medical need due to antimicrobial resistance.
Research Grants
- NHMRC Ideas Grant, co-CI, 01/01/2024, 12/01/2026, AU$ 810K
- Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellowship, 01/01/2023, 12/01/2025, AU$ 450K
- FMNHS Platform Access Grants, 10/01/2023, 09/01/2024, AU$10K
- Monash BDI Research Accelerator Program, 06/01/2023, 06/01/2026, AU$10K
- AINSE Early Career Researcher Grant, 07/01/2019, 06/01/2021, AU$ 10K
- FMNHS Postdoctoral Bridging Fellowship, 07/01/2018, 08/01/2019, AU$ 60K
- Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering Neutron Proposals, co-investigator, > AU$ 400 K
Awards
- Monash Early Career Travel Grant (2023)
- Infection Program Seed Award (2023)
- FMNHS Early Career Researcher Travel Grants (2022)
- France and Europe EMCR Mobility Grants, Australian Academy of Science (2019)
- Monash Institute of Medical Engineering Travel Award (2019)
- Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Travel Award (2018)
- Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Post-graduate Research Awards (PGRA) (2016-2018)
- American Society of Microbiology Microbe Student and Postdoctoral Travel Award (2016)
- Monash University Travel Award (2016)
- Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (2015-2018)
- Silver Jubilee Postgraduate Research Top-Up Scholarship (2015-2018)
- Monash Graduate Scholarship (2014-2018)
- Excellent Master's Dissertation Award of Shanghai (2013)
- Outstanding Bachelor Thesis of Shandong University (2009)
- National Encouragement Scholarship (2008)
Publications
54, 14, 2, Nat Commun, Nat Microbiol, Adv Sci, Cell Chem Bio, etc, 1628, 25, https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=7lCEKdMAAAAJ&hl=en
Community Service
- Gordon Research Seminar: Metabolomics and Human Health (Vice Chair; Italy, 2023)
- Monash Biomedicine Discover Institute ECR Committee (Chair of the Science Communication Subcommittee; Monash University, 2022-2023)
- The 1st International Conference on Antimicrobial Computational Pharmacology (ECR Committee member; Australia, 2022)
- Society of Proteomics and Metabolomics Victoria (Committee member; Australia, 2019-current)
Timeline
ARC DECRA Fellow, Group Leader
Biomedicine Discovery Institute
01.2023 - Current
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Biomedicine Discovery Institute
11.2017 - 12.2022
Research and Laboratory Assistant
Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
12.2014 - 11.2017
Scientist of Pharmaceutical Analysis
Daicel Chiral Technologies (China)
04.2014 - 07.2014
Research Assistant
Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry
07.2012 - 04.2014
Doctor of philosophy - PharmACOLOGY & Pharmaceutical Science
Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Master of Sciences - Medicinal Chemistry
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bachelor of Sciences - Applied Chemistry
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University
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