Simon Foster 14th Australian Peptide Conference 2022

Simon Foster

Dr. Simon Foster is an emerging leader in molecular pharmacology and cardiovascular physiology whose research is focussed on the identification and understanding of novel aspects of cell signalling and G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) biology. Dr. Foster has recent publications in leading journals including Cell, PNAS, British Journal of Pharmacology, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, and was awarded the ASCEPT/BPS Outstanding Young Investigator Prize and the Certara New Investigator Award in 2019. He received his BA/BSc (Hons) degrees from the University of Melbourne and then gained his PhD in 2014 from the University of Queensland for his studies on odorant and taste receptors in the heart. Having being awarded consecutive Postdoctoral Research fellowships from the Lundbeck Foundation and the Danish Council for Independent Research, Simon moved to the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) in 2015, where he discovered new peptide ligands for multiple orphan GPCRs. He returned to Australia in 2018 to investigate new aspects of chemokine receptor signalling at Monash University, and joined the Cardiac Bioengineering Group at QIMR Berghofer in October 2020. Simon is now applying his pharmacology and cell signalling expertise to cardiovascular research questions, using the human cardiac organoid platform developed in the Cardiac Bioengineering Group.