Invited Speakers » Robert Vandenberg
University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Robert Vandenberg is Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Sydney. He obtained his PhD in 1989 in Biochemistry and then did Postdoctoral work at the Garvan Institute in Sydney, Australia and the Vollum Institute for Advanced Biomedical Sciences in Portland Oregon, where he developed an interest in the structure and function of neurotransmitter transporters. He was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Sydney in 1999 and set up the Transporter Biology Group in the Discipline of Pharmacology. In 2011, he was appointed as Head of Discipline of Pharmacology. His current research is focused on understanding the molecular basis for the functions of Glycine and Glutamate Transporters and using this to develop novel drugs to treat neurological disorders.
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