Anthony Carroll

Prof Anthony Carroll is a Professor at Griffith University's School of Environment and Science (Department of Environment and Marine), affiliated with the Centre for Catalysis and Clean Energy. He leads research in natural products chemistry, specializing in drug discovery, chemical ecology, and NMR-based metabolomics. His career includes 14 years leading Griffith University's Natural Products Drug Discovery joint venture with AstraZeneca, managing over AUD 100 million in funding. He has developed advanced analytical techniques like HSQC-TOCSY fingerprinting for compound identification and pioneered high-throughput methods in biodiscovery. Since 2007, he has focused on securing industry and collaborative grants for projects in ecotoxicology, chemotaxonomy, and water security. He has supervised 24 PhD students, 20 postdoctoral researchers, and numerous undergraduates, maintaining a large research group. Current supervision includes projects on environmental metabolomics and marine invertebrate chemistry. His work bridges academia and industry, emphasizing practical applications of natural product sciences.

Education: BSc (Hons) First Class (1985) and PhD (1989) from the University of Sydney, followed by postdoctoral research at University of Hawaii and James Cook University. His research spans drug discovery from plants, marine organisms, and microbes, with over 350 novel natural product structures published. He collaborates internationally with institutions in Germany, USA, Thailand, and across Australia. Key contributions include structural revisions of natural products and metabolomics tools for environmental monitoring.

Research focuses on neurodegenerative disease treatments, antimicrobial agents, and ecotoxicological impacts of pollutants. His lab employs cutting-edge NMR techniques for rapid compound identification and has pioneered methods to study dissolved organic matter in aquatic systems. Awards and recognitions are not explicitly listed but his extensive publications and industry partnerships highlight his global impact in natural product research.