HealtheX 2016
Oral presentation - Doctoral category winners
Grace Gong - AMRF Outstanding Emerging Research Award
Title: Who would have thought that ATP competitive inhibitors could affect protein-membrane interactions?
Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology
Supervisor: Professor Peter Shepherd
Hans Vellara - AMRF Doctoral Oral Presentation Runner Up Award
Title: In vivo orbital compliance in thyroid eye disease
Department of Ophthalmology
Supervisor: Associate Professor Dipika Patel
Jesse Ashton - Second Runner Up Doctoral Oral Presentation Award
Title: Shift of Dominant Pacemaker Site during Reflex Vagal Stimulation is the Result of Propagation Failure
Bioengineering Institute
Supervisor: Professor Bruce Smaill
Oral presentation - Non-doctoral category winners
Hei Tsun Tsang - Best Non-Doctoral Oral Presentation Award
Title: Hyaluronan-coated Liposomes for Targeted Delivery to CD44 Overexpressing Demyelinating Diseases
School of Pharmacy
Supervisor: Dr Zimei Wu
Tessa Fuhrer - First Runner Up Non-Doctoral Oral Presentation Award
Title: Impaired expression of GABA transporters in the human Alzheimer’s disease brain
Department of Anatomy with Radiology
Supervisor: Dr Andrea Kwakowsky
Himanshu Wadhwa - Second Runner Up Non-Doctoral Oral Presentation Award
Title: Investigating the use of corneal stem cell-enriched spheres in keratoconic corneal tissue repair
Department of Ophthalmology
Supervisor: Associate Professor Trevor Sherwin
Poster presentation winners
Maximilian Joret - AMRF Best Poster Presentation Award
Title: The immunosuppressive phenotype of human brain pericytes in glioblastoma multiforme
Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology
Supervisor: Professor Michael Dragunow
Wojciech Ambroziak - First Runner Up Poster Presentation Award
Title: Regulation of synaptic glutamate receptor distribution in mutant huntingtin expressing neurons
Department of Physiology
Supervisor: Associate Professor Johanna Montgomery
Madhavi Pandya - Second Runner Up Poster Presentation Award
Title: Age- and gender-specific changes in GABAA receptor subunits in Human inferior-, middle- and superior temporal gyri
Department of Anatomy with Radiology
Supervisor: Dr Andrea Kwakowsky
Elevator pitch awards
Amy Gamage - Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust Best Elevator Pitch Presentation Award
Title: The Roles of Placental Macrophages (Hofbauer cells) in Placental Vascular Development
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Supervisor: Dr Jo James
Anusha Dravid - FMHS Postdoc Society First Runner Up Elevator Pitch Presentation Award
Title: Developing an injectable thermosensitive gelling system for the sustained release of lactoferrin
School of Pharmacy
Supervisor: Dr Darren Svirskis
Elsie Jacobson - FMHS PGSA Second Runner Up Elevator Pitch Presentation Award
Title: Does squeezing through cracks remodel the genome to activate immune cells?
Liggins Institute
Supervisor: Dr Justin O’Sullivan