STAFF PROFILE
Professor Calum Drummond
Position:
Deputy Vice-Chancellor R & I & Vice-Pres
Phone:
+61399254265
Email:
calum.drummond@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
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Research supervision
- Deciphering lipid-RNA nanocarrier structure upon RNA complexation. Funded by: ARC-Discovery Projects from (2024 to 2027)
- Reprogramming T Cells In situ for Lupus Nephritis Treatment Using Novel mRNA-Loaded Lipid Nanoparticles. Funded by: mRNA Victorian Medical Research Acceleration Fund from (2024 to 2025)
- Improving the stability of biomolecules using ionic liquids. Funded by: ARC-Discovery Projects from (2023 to 2026)
- Novel mRNA therapeutic strategies for reprogramming tumour associated macrophages in lung cancer. Funded by: mRNA Victorian Medical Research Acceleration Fund from (2022 to 2024)
14 PhD Current Supervisions9 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions
Nanomaterials, Drug delivery vehicles, Medical imaging agents, Ionic liquids, Multifunctional materials, Colloid and surface science
- Brown, S.,Ryan, T.,Drummond, C.,Greaves, T.,Han, Q. (2024). Lysozyme aggregation and unfolding in ionic liquid solvents: Insights from small angle X-ray scattering and high throughput screening In: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 655, 133 - 144
- El Mohamad, M.,Han, Q.,Clulow, A.,Cao, C.,Safdar, A.,Stenzel, M.,Drummond, C.,Greaves, T.,Zhai, J. (2024). Regulating the structural polymorphism and protein corona composition of phytantriol-based lipid nanoparticles using choline ionic liquids In: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 657, 841 - 852
- Yap, S.,Yu, H.,Li, S.,Drummond, C.,Conn, C.,Tran, N. (2024). Cell interactions with lipid nanoparticles possessing different internal nanostructures: Liposomes, bicontinuous cubosomes, hexosomes, and discontinuous micellar cubosomes In: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 656, 409 - 423
- Yu, H.,Dyett, B.,Kirby, N.,Cai, X.,EL Mohamad, M.,Bozinovski, S.,Drummond, C.,Zhai, M. (2024). pH-Dependent Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Mesophase and Ionization Behavior of Phytantriol-Based Ionizable Lipid Nanoparticles In: Small, , 1 - 10
- Ragini, S.,Dyett, B.,Sarkar, S.,Zhai, M.,White, J.,Banerjee, R.,Drummond, C.,Conn, C. (2024). A systematic study of the effect of lipid architecture on cytotoxicity and cellular uptake of cationic cubosomes In: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 663, 82 - 93
- Ragini, S.,White, J.,Kirby, N.,Banerjee, R.,Bathula, S.,Drummond, C.,Conn, C. (2023). Novel bioactive cationic cubosomes enhance the cytotoxic effect of paclitaxel against a paclitaxel resistant prostate cancer cell-line In: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 649, 966 - 976
- Yu, H.,Angelova, A.,Angelov, B.,Dyett, B.,Matthews, L.,Zhang, Y.,El Mohamad, M.,Cai, X.,Valimehr, S.,Drummond, C.,Zhai, J. (2023). Real-Time pH-Dependent Self-Assembly of Ionisable Lipids from COVID-19 Vaccines and In Situ Nucleic Acid Complexation In: Angewandte Chemie, 62, 1 - 12
- Han, H.,su, y.,Smith, K.,Binns, J.,Drummond, C.,Darmanin, C.,Greaves, T. (2023). Probing ion-binding at a protein interface: Modulation of protein properties by ionic liquids In: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 650, 1393 - 1405
- Han, Q.,Darmanin, C.,Rosado, C.,Verissimo, N.,Pereira, J.,Bryant, G.,Drummond, C.,Greaves, T. (2023). Structure, aggregation dynamics and crystallization of superfolder green fluorescence protein: Effect of long alkyl chain imidazolium ionic liquids In: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 253, 1 - 11
- Yu, H.,Iscaro, J.,Dyett, B.,Zhang, Y.,Seibt, S.,Martinez Gomez, N.,White, J.,Drummond, C.,Bozinovski, S.,Zhai, M. (2023). Inverse Cubic and Hexagonal Mesophase Evolution within Ionizable Lipid Nanoparticles Correlates with mRNA Transfection in Macrophages In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145, 24765 - 24774