Congratulations to CFBD Deputy Director A/Prof Ben Capuano for being appointed as Acting Theme Leader in the Medicinal Chemistry Department at the Monash Insitute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS).

Ben has taken over the position from Prof Peter Scammells who will now be focusing on his role as Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences. Within CFBD, Ben leads the Fragment Elaboration theme. He is a synthetic medicinal chemist specialising in GPCRs.