Lottery Health Research Postdoctoral Fellowship award
Dr Renita Martis has been awarded the Lottery Hearth Research Postdoctoral Fellowship.
School of Medical Sciences Professional Teaching Fellows
Professional Teaching Fellows from the School of Medical Sciences teaching hub have relocated from the ground floor of Building 501 to the first floor of Building 505.
Staff changes – Hello, goodbye
Welcome Hannah Brooking and best wishes and thank you to Sandhya Ganesan.
The Marsden grant awarded to a project using super-resolution microscopy
Dr David Crossman from the Department of Physiology and Associate Professor Tony Hickey from the School of Biological Sciences has been awarded a Marsden.
Marsden grant: To reprogrammed dopamine cells in three-dimensional microspheres to treat Parkinson’s Disease
Professor Bronwen Connor , Associate Professor Darren Svirskis and Dr Amy McCaughey-Chapman were awarded a Marsden Fund Project grant.
Marsden grant: To understand how the immune system uses a molecular timer to fight bacterial infections
Associate Professor Chris Hall and Professor Stefan Bohlander along with Associate Professor Guy Warman from the School of Medicine have received a Marsden grant.
Marsden grant: To study a novel pathway involved in lymphatic vessel regeneration
Dr Jonathan Astin and Professor Anthony Phillips from SBS have received $959 000 from Marsden to study a novel pathway involved in lymphatic vessel regeneration.
High profile publications
Scientists at the ACSRC, in an International collaboration with Victoria Wellington University, have demonstrated the potential to track gene therapy vectors using off-the-shelf PET imaging technologies.
Learning support transformative: Meet Ruth
Dr Ruth Monk successfully defended their PhD thesis entitled ‘Modelling Huntington’s Disease Using Direct Cell Reprogramming’.