Dr Bridget Stocker

BSc(Hon)(VUW), PhD(VUW)

Immunoglycomics Research Group Leader

Email
bstocker@malaghan.org.nz
Phone
+64 4 499 6914 x 813
Fax
+64 4 499 6915
Dr Stocker was awarded the Victoria University of Wellington Gold Medal for the top graduating BSc(Hons) student in 2000, and continued on at Victoria University for her PhD, focusing 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 mycobacterial 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).