Dr Julie Spicer
Dr Julie Spicer is a Medicinal Chemist at the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland. Her research interests involve the design and synthesis of drugs for cancer and immune disorders and she teaches into chemistry and pharmacology courses. Her current research spans two broad areas; the use of small molecules to modulate the immune system by selectively targeting cytotoxic effector cells, and the discovery of small molecule inhibitors of cell signalling pathways for the precision treatment of cancer. She has active collaborations with researchers at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Melbourne), the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University (Melbourne) and the University of Eastern Finland.