Director | Professor Michelle McIntosh

Centre Director

Professor Michelle McIntosh has led the expansion and growth of the MMIC since its establishment in 2017. Michelle engages with key industry, government and university stakeholders to ensure alignment of our strategic capabilities with the evolving needs of the sector. Michelle is also the Director of the HMST Analytical Laboratory and Leader of the Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics (D4) Theme at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science (MIPS). She also served several years on a Victorian Government Ministerial Panel for Advanced Manufacturing.

Michelle completed a degree in Pharmacy and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University with a research focus on the in-vivo transport of poorly water-soluble drugs within plasma lipoproteins. In 1999, she undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Drug Delivery Research (CDDR) at the University of Kansas before returning to Monash University in 2006 to continue her research as an academic.

Passionate about improving access to life-saving medication in developing countries, Michelle established the Inhaled Oxytocin Project to develop a stable, dry powder oxytocin formulation for preventing and treating postpartum haemorrhage after childbirth. She has served on a WHO expert panel on the use of uterotonics in developing countries (2011) and was a member of a technical advisory group focused on innovations for the UN Commission on Life Saving Commodities for Women and Children (2013–2014).

Speciality areas:

• Drug delivery, disposition, and dynamics
• Commercial research and development
• Global health and philanthropy