Neuropharmacology and Neurochemistry

Yingxu Wang is professor of cognitive informatics, brain science and denotational mathematics. He is President of International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICIC). He is Fellows of BCS, ICIC, WIF, and Senior Members of IEEE and ACM. He has held visiting professor positions at Oxford University (’95), Stanford University (‘08|’16), UC Berkeley (‘08), and MIT (‘12). He is the initiator of fields of cognitive informatics, denotational mathematics, abstract intelligence (aI), neural circuit theory, formal brain models, cognitive robots and cognitive machine learning. He is a top 2.5% scholar worldwide and top 10 at UCalgary according to Research Gate’s statistics

NHMRC Senior Research Fellow

Head: Metabolic Receptor Biology Laboratory

Drug Discovery Biology

Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Denise Wootten completed her PhD in 2008 at the University of Birmingham in the UK before moving to MIPS in 2009. Her expertise is in the study of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). These proteins represent the largest family of receptors in the human genome and the biggest class of current drug targets.