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4.08/20/2025

A master at fostering understanding.

4.05/21/2025

Encourages deep understanding and curiosity.

5.03/31/2025

Always positive, enthusiastic, and supportive.

4.02/27/2025

Makes even dry topics interesting.

5.02/7/2025

Encourages innovative and creative solutions.

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About Lauren

Lauren May is an Associate Professor in Drug Discovery Biology at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences within the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University. She serves as Group Leader and Co-Director of the Cardiac GPCR Biology laboratory, leading a multidisciplinary program that employs innovative approaches to G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) drug discovery. Her research centers on adenosine receptors, developing biased agonists and allosteric modulators to enhance cardioprotective signaling pathways while minimizing adverse effects such as reduced heart rate and hypotension. This work addresses key challenges in cardiovascular therapeutics, where cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of death in Australia. May earned her PhD in 2007 and held the Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship from 2018 to 2022. Her career at Monash has progressed from Senior Lecturer and Group Leader to her current associate professorship, contributing to projects on protein structure modeling for GPCR-targeted therapies in heart failure, adenosine receptor modulators for epilepsy, and inflammation in kidney disease.