Dr. Antony Kam joined the Department of Biological Sciences, School of Science at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University as an Assistant Professor in 2023. He graduated with a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) degree (2010) and a Ph.D. in Pharmacy (2015) from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, Australia, focusing on natural product pharmacology. After graduation, he was appointed first as a Research Fellow, and later, promoted to Senior Research Fellow, at the School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, under the supervision of a world-renowned peptide chemist, Professor James P. Tam (2014-2023).

Dr. Kam's research interests center around peptide drug discovery and translational research for applications in precision medicine, cosmeceuticals, theranostic, and food science. Since 2010, Dr. Kam has published over 28 peer-reviewed articles in well-recognized journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Frontiers in Pharmacology, and Frontiers in Plant Sciences. He also holds two US and China national phase patent applications related to the discovery of hyperstable epidermal growth factor receptor agonists for wound healing, cosmetics, and cellular agriculture applications. Dr. Kam's current research goal is to create a protein-scaffold-toolbox from naturally-occurring cystine-stabilized microproteins that can be used for epitope grafting to design new drugs targeting different diseases.His laboratory is highly competent in the use of multi-disciplinary methodologies which include chemical biology, peptide/protein chemistry, high-throughput screening, peptide-based combinatorial libraries, molecular pharmacology, mass spectrometry-based proteomics, bioinformatics, and in vivo studies.

He welcomes interested academic and industrial collaborations, as well as students to join his research projects.Interest parties can contact via e-mail: Antony.kam@xjtlu.edu.cn

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Peptide drug discovery and design

High-throughput drug screening

Chemical and genetic-encoded combinatorial library

Solid-phase peptide synthesis

Mass spectrometry-based proteomics analysis

Chemical biology

Molecular pharmacology

Cystine-stabilized microproteins

Natural products

Precision medicine

Food science

Cosmeceuticals

Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Xian JiaoTong Liverpool University, China - 2023 to present

Adjunct Associate Professor at School of Biosciences, Taylor's University, Malaysia - 2024 to present

Senior Research Fellow in the laboratory of Professor James P. Tam, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - 2020 to 2023

Research Fellow in the laboratory of Professor James P. Tam, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - 2014 to 2020

BIO205 Cell Biology Techniques

BIO302 Biochemical Messengers

Best Poster award - Frontiers in Peptide Science and Drug Discovery Symposium, Singapore - 2022.

Mistletoe Research Fellow, Momental Foundation, USA - 2021

ASBMB 2018 Graduate/Postdoctoral Travel Award - Experimental Biology 2018, San Diego, USA - 2018

Peptide Therapeutic Foundation Travel Award - 11th Peptide therapeutic Symposium 2016, San Diego, USA - 2016

2013 Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS) Travel Grant – University of Sydney, Australia - 2013

University of Sydney Postgraduate Award (UPA) Research Scholarship – University of Sydney, Australia

2012 CGCM Travel Grant – 11th Meeting of Consortium for Globalization of Chinese Medicine (CGCM), Macau, China - 2012

2012 Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS) Travel Grant – University of Sydney, Australia - 2012

2011 CGCM Travel Grant – 10th Meeting of Consortium for Globalization of Chinese Medicine (CGCM), Shanghai, China -2011