Professor Pall Thordarson

Director of the UNSW RNA Institute at UNSW

Speaker

Prof. Pall Thordarson (Palli) is a Chemistry Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney and the Director of the UNSW RNA Institute and the program leader for the NSW RNA Production and Research Network. He served as the President of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) from 2022-2024. He has been instrumental in developing the >$200M investment from the NSW state government in Sydney which includes building a CDMO for GMP compliant RNA products and an associated 10-year RNA research and developmental. Palli has also heavily involved in the national discourse on RNA in Australia as one of the founding members of the Australian RNA Production Consortium (ARPC) in 2020.