Frank Sainsbury
Frank Sainsbury is a Research Leader at the Griffith University Institute for Biomedicine and Glycomics. His research group is primarily interested in virus capsids, pushing the boundaries of how they assemble and what can be learned from using them as biochemical reaction vessels and delivery vehicles. Dr Sainsbury trained as a plant virologist at the John Innes Centre in the UK. His work there included the invention of protein expression systems in plants that have supported Phase III clinical trials of influenza vaccine candidates and led to a major UK innovation award. Since returning to Australia to take up an Australian Research Council (ARC) Early Career Fellowship at the University of Queensland in 2014, he has developed a program of research into the assembly, engineering, and uses of virus-like particles. Dr Sainsbury was awarded a Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform Fellowship to explore the directed assembly of virus coat proteins into protein cages with non-natural geometries. He took up a tenured position at Griffith University in 2019 and was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship in 2023 to use a synthetic virology approach to evolving virus capsids for applied uses in agriculture and health.
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