We are a research group at the University of Sydney. Our research covers a diverse range of fields within medicinal chemistry & drug discovery @Sydney_Uni.

Sydney, New South Wales
Huge congratulations to our honours students for delivering fantastic final presentations and finishing off the year!
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Excellent flash talk given by Andrew Montgomery today on the optimised synthesis of the radiolabeling precursor and analytical standard of [18F]-Florzolotau. #MCCB2025 #RACI
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The #MCCB2025 conference in Darwin kicks off in style, with @alessiociulli 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 😂)
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Great talk by @Lani_D1 from our lab at #MCCB2025 in Darwin on engineered nanobodies as potential theranostics!
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Dr Ludovica Monti @LudovicaMonti @ChemistryUoM 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 @RACInational #MCCB2025
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A great short talk by Isabel Barter today at RACI MCCB 2025 on 'Cyclic peptide natural products dysregulate the proteome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.' #MCCB2025
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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
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Kassiou & Danon Christmas Party 2024
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Huge congrats to our PhD students Chianna, Nick and Dane and our post-doc Andrew for their poster presentations at #RACIORGANIC24 last night!
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Fantastic presentation given by @TitchDanon this afternoon at #ORGANIC24 on mechanically interlocked drug molecules!
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🔔Voting for the DDI Research Image Contest 2024 - People's Choice award closes in two days! 📲 forms.office.com/r/pXF72q962… This year fantastic snapshots from DDI members' labs have revealed the breadth and beauty of research being conducted @Sydney_Uni 🤩 Congrats to our nominees!
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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/1jxn5…
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Congratulations to @Sydney_DDI Director @MichaelKassiou, joint winner of the Australian Financial Review research commercialisation award.
Thrilled to see @Sydney_Uni and @UNSW joint winners of the research commercialisation award at the @FinancialReview. @MichaelKassiou superstar @Kinoxis_Tx
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Here they are together 🙌🏻
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Thrilled to see @Sydney_Uni and @UNSW joint winners of the research commercialisation award at the @FinancialReview. @MichaelKassiou superstar @Kinoxis_Tx
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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".
🧩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
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It has been a pleasure having you here for 8 years. I’m sure you will continue to excel.
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!
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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!
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🧩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
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