CCS Doctoral Student Profile - Waled Shihata

By Eliza Watson 

Waled Shihata at the 2016
CCS Graduate Symposium

Waled Shihata is a Monash University PhD student in the Vascular Pharmacology Laboratory and the Haematopoiesis and Leukocyte Biology Laboratory at the Baker Research Institute, where he is supervised respectively by Prof Jaye Chin-Dusting and A/Prof Andrew Murphy. He completed his Honours in the same lab at Baker Institute before beginning his PhD where he is currently researching high blood pressure in cardiovascular disease and the role of caveolae/caveolin proteins.

4 Aug 2015 3MT CCS heat is on: See our students compete! All welcome

The Central Clinical School is holding its 3MT thesis heat to select a finalist to compete in the Faculty heat, on Tuesday 4 August 2015. Please come along and support our participants. See more detail & RSVP for catering (lunch is provided courtesy Monash Postgraduate Association sponsorship) at:
www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/education/hdr-3mt.html

 Ashlee Conway (ACBD)
Topic: The characterisation of red cell mutants identified in an ENU mutagenesis screen

Dominik Draxler (ACBD)
Topic: The plasminogen activation system in traumatic brain injury

Paddy Dempsey (Baker IDI)
Topic: Breaking up prolonged sitting - implications for prevention and management of Type 2 diabetes

Andrew Guy (Immunology/Burnet)
Topic: Assessing disordered proteins in Plasmodium falciparum and their importance as targets of protective humoral immunigy against symptomatic malaria

Shanzana Khan (Baker IDI)
Topic: The influence of Y Chromosome Lineage in determining vascular function, inflammation and blood pressure regulation



Waled Shihata (Baker IDI)
Topic: Pathophysiological effects of high intraluminal pressure on cardiovascular disease

See more & RSVP at www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/education/hdr-3mt.html