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Jared is a proud Yuwi man, pharmacist and early-career researcher with interests spanning from culturally safe and effective pharmacy practice through to new technologies for pharmaceutical development and delivery. After graduating from UQ with a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) in 2012, he worked as a community pharmacist before returning to undertake a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences, focusing on discovering new drugs for Alzheimer’s disease. Throughout his PhD, Jared developed an interest in teaching and tutored for many pharmacy courses. Ultimately this led to his current role as a Senior Lecturer with UQ School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences upon finishing his PhD in 2021. Jared also works as a clinical and research pharmacist with the Institute of Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH).

Dr Yanan Wang is a Postdoc at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland. She obtained her PhD degree from Ocean University of China and joined AIBN in early 2026.

Dr Wang’s research focuses on the development of stimulus-responsive and targeted drug delivery systems for the treatment of acute organ injuries and inflammatory diseases. In addition, her current work also aims to develop engineering multifunctional nanomedicine for cancer immunotherapy, with particular interests in innate immune modulation, dendritic cell-mediated antitumour immunity, and the tumour immunosuppressive microenvironment reprogramming for enhancing cancer treatment.

Dr Wang has published 23 papers in international top refereed journals such as ACS Nano, Advanced science, Biomaterials, Chemical Engineering Journal, and so on.