Michael Foley
CSO
Management and Board of Directors
AdAlta
Australia
Biography
Mick is the founding scientist of AdAlta and a key inventor of AdAlta’s lead i-body candidate AD-114. Upon completion of his PhD he was awarded a Wellcome Training Fellowship and worked at the Walter and Elisa Hall Institute. In 1995 Mick was awarded an ARC QEII Fellowship where he established the phage display of antibodies and peptide technology as a means of answering fundamental questions of immunity to infectious diseases.
Research Interest
Mick is an internationally recognized leader in phage display, the technology used to screen the i-body library to identify new drug candidates. Having published over 70 scientific publications Mick has received funding from ARC, NHMRC and NIH (US).