Community support for our young researchers
Sam Heffernan, Pich Chhay, Dr Mounir Boudali and Lionel Leck
Samantha Hefferan from the Murray Maxwell Biomechanics Laboratory will
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Five emerging research leaders welcomed travel grants through the Skipper Jacobs Charitable Trust.
visit the University of Auckland, working in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering to broaden her understanding of the ultrastructure of human tendons. 4 Dr Mounir Boudali , an early-career engineer with specialisation in robotics, will visit the renowned Cleveland Clinic in the USA to enhance his knowledge of using robotics in biomechanical research for joint replacements. This will support the use of the Kolling’s new KOBRA biomechanical robot. 5 Dr Kenji Fujita from the Ageing and Pharmacology Research Group at the Kolling will lead workshops and presentations in Denmark, Norway and Japan discussing the safe use of medicines and high quality pharmaceutical care. Kolling Institute Academic Director Professor Jim Elliott thanked Lynette and Jack Skipper for their generous support of the talented researchers, saying their experiences will greatly expand our research success.
Close to $40,000 was shared amongst the early-to-mid career researchers, allowing them to travel nationally and internationally expanding their research experience and developing new skills. The funding was distributed to the following five researchers: 1 PhD student Lionel Leck from the Cancer Drug Resistance and Stem Cell Program will take part in an internship at the Seoul National University to gain first-hand experience of a new technique looking at the molecular mechanisms of specific cancers. 2 F ellow PhD student Pich Chhay from the Cardiovascular Discovery Group will visit the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute in Adelaide. There she will learn an innovative technique using gas chromatography to measure omega-3 in blood samples as an indicator of early heart disease.
42 Kolling Institute Year in Review 2022
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