Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

Research Student Profiles

 

 

 

Nicole Lee

I’m Nicole Lee, I work in Austin Hospital’s Zajac group. My PhD topic is identifying the mechanisms of male sex hormones in increasing skeletal muscle mass.

 

Annie McCauely

My name is Annie Macauley I work at the Centre for Eye Research Australia. The title of my PhD is: “Biomarkers in diabetic retinopathy: investigations of transcriptenomic and epigenetic disease modifiers in relation to diabetic retinopathy.” 

 

Elgene Lim

My name is Elgene Lim, I’m a medical oncologist, but I’m also a PhD student at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. My research topic is: "The elucidation of the human mammary epithelial hierarchy and comparing it to various types of breast cancer.

Eva Fenwick

My name is Eva Fenwick and I’ve just started a PhD with the Health Services Research Unit here at the Centre for Eye Research Australia. My PhD is looking into developing and validating a novel tool to measure the impact of diabetic retinopathy on people’s quality of life.

  

Leighton Kearney

I'm a Medical Doctorate student in the Cardiovascular Research Group. My research aims to identify objective markers of risk for Aortic Stenosis, a narrowing of the aortic valve.

Rebecca Nisbet

Hi, I'm Rebecca Nisbet, I’m a PhD student in the Department of Biochemistry and my projects are entitled: “Investigating the role of the GPI anchor in prion diseases.”

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