Michelle Glass

 Michelle Glass is a New Zealand pharmacology academic. She is currently a full professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology at the University of Otago.
Career.
Since a 1994 PhD titled " 'Receptor alterations in human neuro-degenerative diseases' " at the University of Auckland, she has worked at both the University of Auckland and the University of Otago, rising to full professor.
Glass's primary work has been on cannabinoids and they have received multiple grants for the work and considerable press attention. She has also been involved in a documentary 'Mum, Cannabis and Me'
More recently, Prof Glass has applied her expertise in G protein-coupled receptors to the forest pathogen, kauri dieback. In 2018, she received a grant from the Marsden Fund entitled "Applying human drug discovery approaches to kauri dieback"