Rate My Professor Amandeep Kaur

Dr. Amandeep Kaur is a Lecturer and ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow in the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University. She leads the Kaur Group within the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, focusing on the Medicinal Chemistry theme. Kaur completed her PhD in 2016 at the University of Sydney under the supervision of Professor Elizabeth New. She subsequently undertook a postdoctoral position in biological imaging at the University of New South Wales. In 2018, she received the University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor’s Fellowship to establish her independent research career. Her research specializes in the design and synthesis of advanced fluorescent probes and sensors for super-resolution microscopy. These tools enable the nanoscale imaging of protein aggregates, such as amyloids and tau proteins, implicated in neurodegenerative diseases. Key projects include developing photoswitchable fluorophores for amyloid architecture visualization, non-invasive functional imaging of the digestive lymphatic system, and molecular innovations to decode tauopathies at the nanoscale. She contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being through her work in synthetic organic chemistry, fluorescence microscopy, and molecular imaging of biological molecules and processes.

Dr. Kaur has earned notable recognition, including the JG Russell Award for a top-ranked ARC DECRA and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) Rita Cornforth Lectureship for outstanding early-career female chemists in Australia. As Chief Investigator, she leads funded initiatives advancing imaging technologies for unmet biomedical needs. Her publications feature high-impact works such as “Amyloid Targeting-Gold Nanoparticles-Assisted X-ray Therapy Rescues Islet β-Cells from Amyloid Fibrils and Restores Insulin Homeostasis” (ACS Nano, 2025), “Flavonoid-Derived Probes for the Detection of Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Aggregates” (Analysis and Sensing, 2025), “A Coumarin-Based Array for the Discrimination of Amyloids” (ACS Sensors, 2024), and “BODIPY-based Fluorescent Indicators for Lipid Droplets” (Analysis & Sensing, 2024). Dr. Kaur supervises PhD students from 2014 to 2027 and maintains an active research portfolio with 37 outputs, including 27 articles and 8 reviews.