PhD Scholarships

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

Aaminah Khan
UNSW
Supervisor: Professor David Ziegler
Scholarship name: Gemma Howell Scholarship
Thesis: Targeting the polyamine pathway as a therapeutic strategy in paediatric brain tumours.

Caitlin Ung
UNSW
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.

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

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

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

Nick McKensie
Monash University
Supervisors: Professor Chen Davidovich
Scholarship name: Charlee Ferrar scholarship
Thesis: RNA-mediated regulation of polycomb group proteins

Shaye Game
Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Supervisors: Associate Professor Jason Cain
Scholarship name: Elliot Gautsch scholarship
Thesis: Targeting epigenetic dysregulation in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma

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

Liam Furst
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Supervisors: Professor David Eisenstat
Scholarship name: Patrick Martinez-Cruz and Lucy McAleer scholarship
Thesis: Epigenetic reprogramming of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (Diffuse Midline Glioma)

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