Malcolm McLeod

Malcolm McLeod is an Associate Professor in the Research School of Chemistry at The Australian National University. His research focuses on anti-doping chemistry, drug metabolism and metabolite profiling, medicinal chemistry, and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. His work includes the development of methods for sports drug testing, the study of designer steroids, and the exploration of new enzymes for the analysis of sulfate metabolites. He also investigates the medicinal chemistry of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, aiming to develop new drugs for neurological disorders. McLeod's research has been published in several scientific journals and has contributed to advancements in anti-doping strategies and drug detection methods.

Malcolm D. McLeod is a Professor of Chemistry at the Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, specializing in synthetic organic chemistry. His research focuses on the development of chemoenzymatic methods for the enantioselective synthesis of complex natural products, including sesquiterpenoids and macrolides. He has contributed significantly to the total synthesis of various bioactive compounds, such as concanamycin F and tetrahydrolipstatin, and has explored asymmetric reactions like the Sharpless aminohydroxylation. His work also addresses the structural and functional analysis of steroid sulfates and their implications in drug detection and metabolism.