Dr Amy Winship
Cancer therapies, like chemotherapy, can cause devastating side-effects for young female survivors, such as infertility and early menopause. Now, immunotherapies are revolutionising cancer therapy. They activate the patient’s immune system to target and kill tumour cells. Because they are so effective, patients are receiving these drugs before the full spectrum of side-effects have been tested….
Read More »Dr Carolien van de Sandt
Viruses, like influenza and SARS-CoV-2, can make you sick. Children are great at controlling viral infections resulting in mild symptoms, like a running nose, cough and fever, which resolve within a few days. Elderly people have a reduced ability to control infections, resulting severe disease, hospitalization and even death. Dr Carolien van de Sandt’s research…
Read More »Dr Charis Teh
Immunotherapy is a treatment type that guides our body’s immune system to target and eliminate cancer cells with precision. However, it only works in 80-90% of patients, prompting the need for new immunotherapies. Together with a cross-disciplinary team, Dr Teh has discovered a new way to boost cancer immunotherapy by targeting Treg cells. Treg cells…
Read More »A/Prof Kate Nguyen
When you design a building, you surely don’t want it to catch fire. Unfortunately, many buildings cannot properly do this yet. Each year more than fifty Australians die because of residential fires. In addition, Australia generates an average of 20.5 million tonnes of landfill waste annually, and a third of that is from construction. A/Prof…
Read More »A/Prof Atul Malhotra
Intensive care for the sick or premature newborn baby has advanced tremendously in the last few decades. Improved survival of the most vulnerable babies is associated with risk of long-term complications of their lungs, brain, heart and other organs. A/Prof Atul Malhotra’s team is developing and translating new cell therapies for these infants, so that…
Read More »A/Prof Shanshan Li
A/Prof Shanshan Li is an internationally recognized environmental epidemiologist. She is a recipient of NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellowship (EL2) and NHMRC Early Career Fellowship. Her research interests focus on climate health, particularly for impacts of air pollution and climate change on child health, perinatal health, and birth outcomes. In the past 10 years, Shanshan has…
Read More »A/Prof Rachel Laws
The first 2000 days of life, from conception to age 5, is a key developmental period when eating behaviours are established informing developmental, educational and health outcomes across the life course. Common conditions like obesity, and later in life heart disease, diabetes and some cancers are all related to what we eat as children. Diet…
Read More »A/Prof Yugeesh Lankadeva
Yugeesh Lankadeva is working to reduce multi-organ dysfunction arising from sepsis, a condition that kills nearly 11 million people globally each year. Characterised by a dysregulated immune response to infection, sepsis is the leading cause of death in intensive care units in Australia and worldwide. Yugeesh aims to use a new pH-balanced formulation of sodium…
Read More »A/Prof Delyse Hutchinson
A/Prof Delyse Hutchinson is a Clinical and Developmental Psychologist, and a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Leadership Fellow. She leads a program in longitudinal lifecourse research at the Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development (SEED) at Deakin University, Melbourne. Her research aims to address critical gaps in knowledge on intergenerational patterns of…
Read More »Dr Michalis Hadjikakou
The world is facing pressing environmental challenges that threaten the stability of our societies and our long-term well-being. At the heart of these challenges is the way we currently produce, trade, and consume food. We must shift to a more sustainable food system, but this relies on a comprehensive and unbiased assessment of alternative solutions….
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