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TCRN PhD Scholarship Top-up awardees
| Name | Research Project | School | Grant Awarded | Award Round |
2021 PhD Scholarship Top-up Awards | ||||
| Stephanie Nemec | Micropatterned confinement directs cancer-associated fibroblast activity and spatial corralling of pancreatic cancer cells | Faculty of Science, UNSW | One-year PhD Scholarship Top up | 2021 |
| Rui Sang | X-ray triggered photodynamic therapy (PDT) used for the treatment of lymph node metastatic colorectal cancer | Faculty of Engineering, UNSW | One-year PhD Scholarship Top up | 2021 |
| Mir Hadi Seyedzadeh | Investigating the effects of matrix properties on tumour-specific T cell responses using 3D bioprinter | Medicine, UNSW | One-year PhD Scholarship Top up | 2021 |
| Eric Torgbenu | LMIC Cancer-related Lymphoedema Care Project | Faculty of Health, UTS | One-year PhD Scholarship Top up | 2021 |
| Guan Huang | Clinical Translation of Single Extracellular Vesicle Assay for Prostate Cancer and Breast Cancer Diagnosis | Faculty of Science, UTS | One-year PhD Scholarship Top up | 2021 |
| Jessica Mazalo | Cytotoxic T lymphocyte polarisation in response to chemokine receptor actuation | Medicine, UNSW | One-year PhD scholarship Top up | 2021 |
| Sara Mohamed | CRLF2-Targeted Nanomedicine for the Treatment of Ph-like Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia | Medicine, UNSW | One-year PhD scholarship Top up | 2021 |
| Biyao Yang | CRISPR-based gene therapy for breast cancer via triggerable liposomes | Faculty of Engineering, UNSW | One-year PhD scholarship Top up | 2021 |
| James Cremasco | Mechanobiology of NK Cell-Mediated Anti-Tumour Functions | Medicine, UNSW | One-year PhD scholarship Top up | 2021 |
| Mahnaz Maddahfar | Lanthanide Nanoparticles for improving the sensitivity of mass cytometry at the single cell | Medicine, UNSW | One-year PhD scholarship Top up | 2021 |
2020 PhD Scholarship Top-up Awards | ||||
| Gabriele De Rubis | A Liquid Biopsy platform to predict treatment outcome in Myeloma patients | Faculty of Health, UTS | One-year PhD Scholarship Top up | 2020 |
| Nicola Meagher | Unravelling mucinous tumours of the ovary and intestinal tract: diagnosis, classification and molecular profiling | Medicine, UNSW | One-year PhD Scholarship Top up | 2020 |
| Michael Kolawole Odutola | Lifestyle, occupational and genetic risk factors for follicular lymphoma in Australia | Medicine, UNSW | One-year PhD Scholarship Top up | 2020 |
| Maria John Newton Amaldoss | Targeting Mitochondria for Oxidative Stress Mediated Chemo Dynamic Therapy in Solid Tumours | Medicine, UNSW | One-year PhD Scholarship Top up | 2020 |
| Bonnita Werner | Investigating the potential of ascites as a clinical and research tool in ovarian cancer | Medicine, UNSW | One-year PhD Scholarship Top up | 2020 |
| Golam Sarower Bhuyan | Discovering new treatment options for drug resistant myelodysplasia and leukaemia | Medicine, UNSW | One-year PhD Scholarship Top up | 2020 |
| Maria Marinova | NMN resques chemotherapy induced infertility and bone loss | Medicine, UNSW | One-year PhD Scholarship Top up | 2020 |
2018 - Nursing Scholarship Award | ||||
Stephanie White | Developing an Intervention to Build the Capacity of Doctors and Nurses Specialising in Palliative Care to Initiate Genetics/Genomics Discussions with Patients and Their Families | UTS | Nursing Scholarship Award | 2018 |
2018 - Clinical PhD Scholarship | ||||
| Dr Wei Lee | Challenging Issues in Management of Depressed Mood in Advanced Life Limiting Illnesses | Faculty of Health, UTS | Clinical PhD Scholarship Top-up | 2018 |
| Rosie O Shea | Preparing the Health System for New Colorectal Cancer Genetic Test Pathways | Cancer Council NSW | Clinical PhD Scholarship Top-up | 2018 |
| April Morrow | Investigating Factors Affecting the Impact of Interventions to Improve Referral of Colorectal Cancer Patients with a High Risk of Lynch Syndrome | Cancer Council NSW | Clinical PhD Scholarship Top-up | 2018 |
| Jason Behary | The Relationship Between the Intestinal Microbiome and the Intrahepatic Immune Response in the Pathogenesis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma | St George and Sutherland Clinical School, UNSW Sydney | Clinical PhD Scholarship Top-up | 2018 |
| Dr Monica Tang | Assessing and Optimising Anti-Cancer Drug Utilisation | Centre for Big Data Research in Health, UNSW Sydney | Clinical PhD Scholarship Top-up | 2018 |
2018 Round 2 | ||||
| Meredith Hill | MicroRNA to microRNA Interactions – A Pathway to Novel Therapeutic Drug Development | School of Biomedical Engineering, UTS | One-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2018 |
| Dayna Mason | The rapid detection of HPV in Head and Neck cancer patient | School of Biomedical Engineering, UTS | One-year Phd Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2018 |
| Taopeng Wang | Regulation of STAT signalling by the actin cytoskeleton | School of Medical Science, UNSW Sydney | One-year PhD Scholarship Top up | Round 2 2018 |
| Shruthi Subramanian | Identifying Drug Resistant Signatures in Dysplastic and Malignant Haematopoietic Stem Cells | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW Sydney | One-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2018 |
| Peter Truong | Identifying drug resistant signatures in dysplastic and malignant haematopoietic stem cells in the context of Myelodysplastic Syndromes | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW Sydney | One-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2018 |
| Sultana Farhana | A national evaluation of cancer and pregnancy outcomes | UTS | TCRN RTP + Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | 2019 |
2018 Round 1 | ||||
| Fiona Deutsch | Use of Salivary Non-Coding RNA Biomarkers in Head and Neck Cancer | Biomedical Engineering, UTS | Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2018 |
| Victor Lu | A new therapeutic treatment for glioblastoma using patient derived cell lines and animal models | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW Sydney | Two-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2018 |
| Anouschka Akerman | Tumour Cells and Stromal Pancreatic Stellate Cells: Dual Therapeutics Targets in Pancreatic Cancer | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW Sydney | Final-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2018 |
| Tatiane Yanes | Psychosocial Aspect of Genomic Testing for Breast Cancer Risk | School of Psychiatry, UNSW Sydney | Final-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2018 |
| Nicole Yuwono | Deciphering the origins and release mechanism of malignant circulating DNA in ovarian cancer | School of Women's and Children's Health, UNSW Sydney | TCRN RTP + Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2018 |
| Elizabeth Nguyen | Cancer Prevention, care pathways, and outcomes in people with and without intellectual disability | School of Psychiatry, UNSW Sydney | TCRN RTP + Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2018 |
2017 - Clinical PhD Scholarship | ||||
| Dr Lachlin Vaughan | Improving treatment outcomes for myelodysplastic syndrome and chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW Sydney | Clinical PhD Scholarship Top-up | 2017 |
2017 Round 2 | ||||
| Govardhan Anande | Investigating aberrant RNA splicing as a leukemic driver in MDS and AML | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW | Two-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2017 |
| Yuan-Yin Chen | The C-Circle biomarker for ALG Cancer | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW Sydney | Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2017 |
| Ashleigh Lester | Understanding the molecular biology of intracranial ependymoma and identifying novel treatments | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW Sydney | Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2017 |
2014 Round 2 | ||||
| Maria Arriaga | Relative importance of lifestyle-related risk factors for rare cancers in Australia | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW | One-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2014 |
| Xin Ying (Ameline) Lim | Metabolomic modelling in Glioblastoma and normal human Astrocytes | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW | One-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2014 |
2014 Round 1 | ||||
| Pamela Ajuyah | The Role of non-coding RNAs in Head and Neck Cancer | Medical & Molecular Biosciences, UTS | Final-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2014 |
| Nicholas Bentley | Investigating the metabolic effects of enhancing mitochondrial sirtuin activity in obesity and cancer | School of Medical Sciences, UNSW | One-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2014 |
| Simon Brayford | Tropomyosin Based Regulation of Actin Dynamics at the Leading Edge of Migrating Cells | School of Medical Sciences, UNSW | One-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2014 |
| Samuel Brennan | The potential of non-coding RNAs as biomarkers of prostate cancer | Medical & Molecular Biosciences, UTS | Final-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2014 |
| Penelope Dalla | Sub-cellular localisation and trafficking of exogenous P-gp following microparticle binding | Pharmacy, UTS | One-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2014 |
| Claire Henry | Wnt signalling in Gynaecological Cancer | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW | Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2014 |
| Jie-Bin Lew | Effectiveness and economic evaluation of the colorectal cancer screening in Australia | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW | Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2014 |
2013 Round 2 | ||||
| Philip Haywood | Towards a consistent and validated modelling approach in cancer pharmaceuticals for equity and effectiveness at a local level | School of Economics, UTS | Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2013 |
| Diana Hatoum | Breast cancer recurrence: The inadvertent role of P14ARF-p53 pathway activation | Medical & Molecular Biosciences, UTS | Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2013 |
| Julia Suurbach | Novel Delivery of Gene Therapy for the Treatment of Advanced Prostate Cancer | Medical & Molecular Biosciences, UTS | One-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2013 |
| Kylie Taylor | Novel small-molecule inhibitors of AP-1 for the treatment of metastatic melanoma | Centre for Vascular Research, UNSW | Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2013 |
2013 Round 1 | ||||
| Sylvia Chung | Evaluation of a tumour metabolism inhibitor for the treatment of glioblastoma | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW | Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2013 |
| Rosaline Habib | Mesenchymal stem cell homing to advanced and metastatic prostate cancer | Medical & Molecular Biosciences, UTS | Two-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2013 |
| Iman Jalilian | Determination of the impact of Tm isoform-containing actin filaments on the mechanical properties of cells | School of Medical Sciences, UNSW | Two-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2013 |
| Samantha Khoury | Circulating MicroRNAs: Non-invasive biomarkers for head and neck cancers | Science, UTS | Two-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2013 |
| Dilmi Perera | Computational analysis of the dynamic changes in combinational transcriptional regulation during haematopoiesis | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW | Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2013 |
| Bin Wang | The role of Tropomyosin 5NM 1 in regulation of cell proliferation | School of Medical Sciences, UNSW | Two-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2013 |
2012 Round 2 | ||||
| Melissa Desouza | Defining the role of tropomyosins in apoptosis | School of Medical Sciences, UNSW | Two-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2012 |
| Janet Long | Network structure and the role of key players in a translational research network | Australian Institute of Health Innovation, UNSW | Completed in 2014: PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2012 |
| Sean Ma | The Role of ROR2 in Colorectal Cancer | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW | Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2012 |
| Leonardo Pasalic | Pathogenesis of Thromboembolism in Cancer: Neutrophils, Tissue Factor and Microparticles | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW | Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2012 |
| Eric Qiao | Characterising the origins, functions and identity of mesenchymal stem cells at sites of embryonic haematopoiesis | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW | Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 2 2012 |
2012 Round 1 | ||||
| Jackie Huang | Phosphorylation of ERG in normal haematopoietic and leukaemic cells | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW | Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2012 |
| Jonathon Marks-Bluth | Bmp signalling regulates distinct stages of blood formation during embryonic development | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW | Two-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2012 |
| Nina Na | Incidence and risk factors for cancer after heart, lung and liver transplantation in Australia | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW | Completed in 2015: Two-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2012 |
| Peter Zarzour | Cytosine Modifications in the Epigenetic Regulation of Colonic Stem Cell Differentiation | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW | Three-year PhD Scholarship Top-up | Round 1 2012 |
2012 | ||||
| Malgorzata (Gosia) Drwal | Investigation of a tumour enzyme as a predictor of patient response to an Australian anti-cancer drug | School of Medical Sciences, UNSW | Completed in 2013: PhD Scholarship Top-up | 2012 |
| Emma Ramsay | Application of computer-aided methods for the design of novel DNA topoisomerase inhibitors and potential anticancer agents | Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW | Completed in 2014: PhD Scholarship Top-up | 2012 |
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Page last updated: Tuesday 11 May 2021