Rate My Professor Sally Gras

Her research centers on developing, optimizing, and scaling biopharmaceutical and food production processes, including dairy processing, cheese microstructure, protein aggregation, and bioprocessing innovations. Gras leads the Food and Agribusiness research theme in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, teaches Pharmaceutical and Biochemical Production, and serves as Associate Director of Bio21 and Deputy Director with Products Program Lead for the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space. She has applied her work industrially for process upgrades, quality assurance, and overcoming technical barriers to new markets. Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 2020, her influential publications include 'Metastability of native proteins and the phenomenon of amyloid formation' (Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011), 'Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides in biosystems' (Advanced Functional Materials, 2015), 'Recent advances refining galactooligosaccharide production from lactose' (Food Chemistry, 2010), and 'Amyloid Fibril Formation by Bovine Milk κ-Casein and Its Inhibition by the Molecular Chaperones αS- and β-Casein' (Biochemistry, 2005).