Lara Malins is a Professor and Snow Medical Research Fellow at the Research School of Chemistry. She completed her undergraduate studies in chemistry at Boston University in 2009 before relocating to The University of Sydney to undertake her PhD with Professor Richard Payne on the development of new peptide ligation strategies. Upon completion of her postgraduate work, Lara served as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Professor Phil Baran at Scripps Research, developing synthetic methods for the targeted modification of peptides. She began her independent career at the Research School of Chemistry in November 2017. Her research focuses on the development of new synthetic methods for drug discovery, natural product synthesis, and chemical biology.