Dr Jessica Holien

Leading the Way participant

Head - Drug Discovery

St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research

Dr Jessica Holien completed her doctoral studies at MIPS using a Medicinal Chemistry approach to drug exploration. Her project was multidisciplinary, consisting of computational modelling, chemical synthesis and biological assays. Since completing a PhD, Jessica has completed postdoctoral work at commercial entities (Biota, CRC CtX) and in academia.

Jessica has been the recipient of a Cure Cancer/Leukaemia Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and is currently a 5-point Foundation Christine Martin Fellow at St Vincent’s Institute. Her expertise is predominately using computational molecular modelling techniques for drug discovery. She has a particular interest translatable science, having completed Graduate Certificate In Commercialising Research and the Bridge Program.