Dr Bridget Stocker
BSc(Hon)(VUW), PhD(VUW)
Immunoglycomics Research Group Leader
- bstocker@malaghan.org.nz
- Phone
- +64 4 499 6914 x 813
- Fax
- +64 4 499 6915
Dr Stocker is the group leader of the Malaghan's "Immunoglycomics" research initiative. Through the synthesis of complex glycans, the immunoglycomics programme focuses on understanding the role of carbohydrates in biological systems and has several areas of disease focus including asthma, cancer and tuberculosis.
Dr Stocker was awarded the Victoria University of Wellington Gold Medal for the top graduating B.Sc (hons) student in 2000, and continued on at Victoria University for her Ph.D., focussing on the total synthesis of several anti-cancer agents. Following a brief period as a lecturer at Victoria University, Dr Stocker was awarded a FRST Bright Futures post-doctoral fellowship in 2004 and spent two years at the prestigious Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, where she completed the total synthesis of several complex mycobaterial glycans. In 2006, Dr Stocker returned to New Zealand, and a position at the Malaghan Institute. The immunoglycomics programme was established in 2007 in collaboration with Victoria University of Wellington (Dr Mattie Timmer, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences).
