Congratulations to all our 2019 PhD graduates!

So far this year we've had 19 PhD completions, a great effort by our students and their mentors. See below for our 2019 awardees.  For all completions, see CCS web page: www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/education/hdr-completions.

L-R: Jay Hocking, Eileen Merriman, Maria Selvadurai

Australian Centre for Blood Diseases

• Mr Jay Hocking, Investigating MEK inhibition in the treatment of multiple myeloma
• Dr Eileen Merriman, Isolated distal vein Deep Vein Thrombosis: Diagnosis and management strategies
• Ms Maria Selvadurai, Examining PI3KC2alpha as an anti-thrombotic drug target

L-R: Beverley Giam, Kevin Huynh, Ya-Lan (Alice) Ying

Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute

• Miss Beverly Giam, Roles of nitric oxide and oxidative stress on Cardiorenal Syndrome Type 2
• Mr Kevin Huynh, Improving targeted lipidomics to elucidate lipid pathways in Type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease
• Ms Ya-Lan Ying, Identification and characterisation of novel therapeutic targets associated with atherosclerotic plaque instability

L-R: Alicia Chenoweth, Liriye Kurtovic, Riya Palchaudhari

Burnet Institute

• Miss Alicia Chenoweth, Novel approaches for the generation of human antibody therapeutics by IgG Hinge and Fc Engineering
• Ms Liriye Kurtovic, The role of complement in antibody-mediated immune mechanisms against malaria
• Ms Riya Palchaudhuri, Towards a point-of-care test for sepsis - Biomarkers of inflammation

Department of Diabetes

 

L-R: Mary Ajamian, Matthew Snelson

• Mr Matthew Snelson, The effects of dietary advanced glycation endproducts on gut homeostasis and chronic kidney disease

Department of Gastroenterology

• Ms Mary Ajamian, Investigating markers of intestinal barrier dysfunction in gastrointestinal diseases

Department of Immunology and Pathology

• Mr Kristopher Nilsen, Assessment of the reactance lung volume relationship from the forced oscillation technique

L-R: Min (Erica) Kim, Anna Scovelle, Vincent Cornelisse

Department of Medicine

(Includes the departments of Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and Allergy & Clinical Immunology)

• Dr Vincent Cornelisse, Epidemiology of gonorrhoea, chlamydia and HIV in men who have sex with men, and evaluation of new prevention strategies.

Department of Neuroscience

• Ms Min Kim, Developing novel therapeutic strategies to promote neuroprotection and neurorepair in progressive MS
• Ms Anna Scovelle, Associations between sleep and attentional control on the anti-saccade task in 'cognitively vulnerable' adults

L-R: Xianwei Che, Geraldine Ooi

Department of Surgery

(Includes Centre for Obesity Research & Education, and National Trauma Research Institute)

• Ms Geraldine Ooi, Clinical and pathophysiological aspects of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in bariatric surgery

Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre

• Mr Xianwei Che, Examining the role and neurophysiological mechanisms of social support in pain experience