Dr Lachlan Rash

Associate Professor

School of Biomedical Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
l.rash@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 52745

Overview

Dr Rash completed his Honours (1996) and PhD (2001) on the pharmacological activity of spider venoms at the Department of Pharmacology, Monash University in the group of Professor Wayne Hodgson. After 18 months as an Assistant Lecturer at Monash Pharmacology, he was awarded an INSERM/NH&MRC Post-doctoral Fellowship to work in the group of Prof. Michel Lazdunski at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology in Antibes, France. It was here that he became involved in discovery and characterisation of venom peptides that act on acid-sensing ion channels, voltage-gated sodium channels and other pain related channels. Upon returning to Australia to the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (The University of Queensland), he established an ASIC research program and was awarded an NH&MRC project grant as CIA to investigate the molecular basis of the interaction of PcTx1 and APETx2 with ASIC1a and ASIC3 respectively. Dr Rash was appointed as senior lecturer in Pharmacology in the School of Biomedical Sciences in early 2016 where he continues his research on identifying novel bioactive peptides from animal venoms, unravelling the molecular basis for their specific channel interactions and their use as research tools and potential therapeutic lead molecules.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University
  • Bachelor of Science, Monash University

Publications

  • Redd, Meredith A, Yoshikawa, Yusuke, Khan, Nemat, Waqar, Maleeha, Saez, Natalie J, Outhwaite, Jennifer E, Russell, Jake S, Hanna, Amy D, Chiu, Han S, Er, Sing Yan, Butcher, Neville J, Mardon, Karine, Fraser, John F, Smythe, Mark L, Rash, Lachlan D, Thomas, Walter G, King, Glenn F, Reichelt, Melissa E and Palpant, Nathan J (2023). Acid-sensing ion channel 1a blockade reduces myocardial injury in rodent models of myocardial infarction. European Heart Journal. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehad793

  • Alexander, Stephen P. H., Mathie, Alistair A., Peters, John A., Veale, Emma L., Striessnig, Jörg, Kelly, Eamonn, Armstrong, Jane F., Faccenda, Elena, Harding, Simon D., Davies, Jamie A., Aldrich, Richard W., Attali, Bernard, Baggetta, Austin M., Becirovic, Elvir, Biel, Martin, Bill, Roslyn M., Caceres, Ana I., Catterall, William A., Conner, Alex C., Davies, Paul, De Clerq, Katrien, Delling, Markus, Di Virgilio, Francesco, Falzoni, Simonetta, Fenske, Stefanie, Fortuny‐Gomez, Anna, Fountain, Samuel, George, Chandy, Goldstein, Steve A. N. ... Zhu, Michael (2023). The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2023/24: Ion channels. British Journal of Pharmacology, 180 (S2), S145-S222. doi: 10.1111/bph.16178

  • Tran, Hue N. T., Budusan, Elena, Saez, Natalie J., Norman, Alexander, Tucker, Isaac J., King, Glenn F., Payne, Richard J., Rash, Lachlan D., Vetter, Irina and Schroeder, Christina I. (2023). Evaluation of peptide ligation strategies for the synthesis of the bivalent acid-sensing ion channel inhibitor Hi1a. Organic Letters, 25 (24), 4439-4444. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.3c01346

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Supervision

  • (2023) Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Book Chapter

  • Rash, Lachlan D. (2017). Acid-sensing ion channel pharmacology, past, present, and future …. Ion Channels DownUnder. (pp. 35-66) edited by Dominic P. Geraghty and Lachlan D. Rash. Cambridge, MA, United States: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/bs.apha.2017.02.001

  • Geraghty, Dominic P. and Rash, Lachlan D. (2017). Preface. Ion Channels DownUnder. (pp. xi-xii) edited by Dominic P. Geraghty and Lachlan D. Rash. Cambridge, MA, United States: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/S1054-3589(17)30052-2

  • Fry, B. G., Undheim, E. A. B., Jackson, T. N. W., Georgieva, D., Vetter, I., Calvete, J. J., Schieb, H., Cribb, B. W., Yang, D. C., Daly, N. L., Manchadi, M. L. Roy, Gutierrez, J. M., Roelants, K., Lomonte, B., Nicholson, G. M., Dziemborowicz, S., Lavergne, V., Ragnarsson, L., Rash, L. D., Mobli, M., Hodgson, W. C., Casewell, N. R., Nouwens, A., Wagstaff, S. C., Ali, S. A., Whitehead, D. L., Herzig, V., Monagle, P., Kurniawan, N. D. ... Sunagar, K. (2015). Research methods. Venomous reptiles and their toxins: evolution, pathophysiology and biodiscovery. (pp. 153-214) New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press.

  • Smith, Jennifer J., Lau, Carus Ho Yee, Herzig, Volker, Ikonomopoulou, Maria P., Rash, Lachlan D. and King, Glenn F. (2015). Therapeutic applications of spider-venom peptides. Venoms to Drugs: Venom as a Source for the Development of Human Therapeutics. (pp. 221-244) edited by Glenn F. King. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Royal Society of Chemistry.. doi: 10.1039/9781849737876-00221

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Conference Publication

Other Outputs

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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Completed Supervision