Tim. O Sullivan
Chemistry
DESERT ANGELS
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Biography
Dr Tim O’Sullivan received his BSc Degree in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Limerick in 1997. He then went on to do a PhD in natural products synthesis under the supervision of Prof. Lew Mander at the Research School of Chemistry of the Australian National University from 1998 to 2001. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the synthesis of Tamoxifen analogues with Prof. Mary Meegan in Trinity College Dublin from 2001 before taking up another postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Pat Guiry in University College Dublin on the synthesis of novel Lipoxin analogues in 2003 . Following a period as research manager in UCD, he was appointed as Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the School of Pharmacy/Department of Chemistry in University College Cork in 2006. He is currently a member of both COST Action CM1307 'Targeted chemotherapy towards diseases caused by endoparasites' and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Research Interest
Natural products synthesis, asymmetric synthesis, medicinal chemistry, antiparasitic agents, antibacterial agents, antiviral agents
