Phuc Ung is a Ph.D. candidate at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He graduated from Monash University in 2007 to obtain his Bachelor’s degree in Medicinal Chemistry. After working extensively to develop new fluorophores using “click chemistry”, he received his Honours degree under the supervision of Dr. Bim Graham. Thereafter, he joined the group of Professor Dave Winkler at CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies. He is currently working with Dr. Bim Graham and Dr. James D. Swarbrick and is interested in the development of novel lanthanide binding tags and novel application of lanthanides in protein NMR spectroscopy and cellular imaging of GPCRs.

Dave A. Winkler is a Senior Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO and an Adjunct Professor at Monash University. His research interests have mainly involved molecular design and complex systems. Recently, he has moved into regenerative medicine where he collaborates with international stem cell biologists and tissue engineers. He employs computational methods developed for small molecule research and uses them in these complex biological systems. He was awarded traveling fellowships to Kyoto and Oxford and a Newton Turner Fellowship in 2009. He is a past Board Chairman of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and past President of Asian Federation for Medicinal Chemistry. He also represents Australia on the committee organizing of Pacifichem. He has published 150 scientific papers and patents.