PhD Scholarships

Supervisor: Associate Professor Misty Jenkins
Scholarship name: Lucas O’Carroll Scholarship 
Thesis: CAR-T Cells for Paediatric Brain Cancer

Supervisor: Professor David Ziegler
Scholarship name: Gemma Howell Scholarship 

Thesis: Targeting the polyamine pathway as a therapeutic strategy in paediatric brain tumours.

Supervisor: Professor David Ziegler
Scholarship name: Jaxon Cooper Scholarship 
Thesis: New therapeutic strategies for DIPG – understanding the role of the super BBB in the brainstem and ways to overcome it.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Matt Dun
Scholarship name: Josie Dun scholarship
Thesis: Molecular Characterisation of Oncogenic Signalling Networks to Develop Treatment Strategies for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma

Supervisor: Associate Professor Misty Jenkins
Scholarship name: Curtis Dyt scholarship
Thesis: Characterisation of Dual-Specific Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cells in Glioblastoma Multiforme

Supervisor: Associate Professor Misty Jenkins
Scholarship name: Annabelle Potts scholarship
Thesis: Characterisation and Novel Immunotherapy Development for Glioblastoma

Supervisors: Chen Davidovich and Brady Cress 
Scholarship name: Charlee Ferrar scholarship
Thesis: RNA-mediated regulation of polycomb group proteins

Supervisors: Jason Cain 
Scholarship name: Elliot Gautsch scholarship
Thesis: Targeting epigenetic dysregulation in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma

Supervisors: Pouya Faridi
Scholarship name: Kye Funch scholarship
Thesis: An Integrated Immunopeptidomics Approach for Identification of Potential Immunotherapeutic Targets in Paediatric High-grade Gliomas

Supervisors: David Eisenstat
Scholarship name: Patrick Martinez-Cruz and Lucy McAleer scholarship
Thesis: Epigenetic reprogramming of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (Diffuse Midline Glioma)

Supervisors: Associate Professor Misty Jenkins and Dr Alexander Davenport
Scholarship name: Chandler Jahn
Thesis: Investigating Novel CAR T cells therapies in DIPG