My research interests lie in unravelling the role glyconjugates play in the human immune response through the synthesis and immunological evaluation of novel glycoconjugates and glycoconjugate probes. To this end I have collaborated with a number of leading immunologists at the School of Biological Sciences and the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, and in conjunction with Dr B. Stocker, formulated a unique Immunglycomics Platform which functions at the interface of synthetic organic chemistry and immunology. Projects developed within this platform include investigating the role of glycolipids in cancer immunotherapy, the use of glycoconjugate probes to unravel the causes of asthma, and the properties of mycobacterial glycolipids and how they correlate to the immune evasive nature of M. tuberculosis.