Jennifer L. Martin

Jenny Martin
Professor Jenny Martin is Director of the Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery at Griffith University
Nationality	Australian
Institutions	Victorian College of Pharmacy University of Oxford Bond University Rockefeller University University of Queensland Griffith University
Alma mater	Victorian College of Pharmacy (B Pharm, M Pharm) Oxford University (PhD) London Business School
Doctoral advisor	Peter Goodford Louise Johnson

Professor Jennifer L. (Jenny) Martin is the Director of the Eskitis Drug Discovery Institute at Griffith University, and a former Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland. Her research expertise and interests lie in the areas of structural biology, protein crystallography, protein interactions and their applications in drug design and discovery.

Martin completed a Bachelor of Pharmacy at the Victorian College of Pharmacy in Melbourne from 1979–1981, receiving the Gold Medal for the best student in the B Pharm course. After spending a year as a trainee pharmacist, she completed a Masters in Pharmacy, supervised by Professor Peter Andrews, on the application of computational chemistry to opioid analgesics, which piqued her interest in research and led to her first scientific publications. She then left Australia to undertake a PhD at the University of Oxford supported by a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Science Research Scholarship and four other scholarships and bursaries. Under the guidance of Professors Peter Goodford and Louise Johnson, her PhD research used protein crystallography to design glycogen phosphorylase inhibitors as potential anti-diabetic compounds. Martin recently paid tribute to the positive influence that Louise Johnson had on her career upon her death in 2012. In 2015, Martin completed the London Business School 4-week Senior Executive Programme as part of a cohort of 50 industry, government, not-for-profit and academic leaders from around the world.