HealtheX 2012 results

Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Science

• First Place: Alexandra Wallace
  Department: Liggins Institute
  Supervisor: Professor Jane Harding
  Project: Fetal anaemia impairs heart growth and increases indices of cardiovascular risk in adult survivors of intrauterine transfusion
• Runner Up: Ankita Umapathy
  Department: Optometry and Vision Science
  Supervisor: Dr Julie Lim
  Project: Characterising GSH efflux pathways in the rat lens: evidence for inter-tissue exchange of glutathione

Applied and Clinical Science

• First Place: Giriraj Singh Shekhawat
  Department: Audiology
  Supervisor: Dr Grant Searchfield
  Project: Transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS) intensity and duration effects on tinnitus suppression
• Runner Up: Derryn Gargiulo
  Department: Anaesthesiology
  Supervisor: Professor Alan Merry
  Project: Microbial validation of a commercial filter unit: the V-bugs study

• First Place: Tom Kai Ming Wang
  Department: Medicine
  Supervisor: Professor Peter Ruygrok
  Project: Isolated aortic valve replacement in over 80 year olds in 2007-2011: Age trends and mortality
• Runner Up: Zaid Aqrawe
  Department: Pharmacy
  Supervisor: Dr Darren Svirskis
  Project: The preparation and characterisation of polypyrrole particles for tunable drug delivery

• First Place: Prutha Redey
  Department: Anatomy with Radiology
  Supervisor: Dr Susan McGlashan
  Project: Understanding the mechanosensitive response to osmotic loading in cell sub-populations within the nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disc
• Runner Up: Junru Song
  Department: Anatomy with Radiology, Centre for Brain Research
  Supervisor: Dr Henry Waldvogel
  Project: Heterogeneous GABA_A receptor localisation in the human amygdala

• Congratualtions to Alexandra Wallace, winner of the Doctoral Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Science Oral Presentation category, for receiving the AMRF Emerging Researcher Award which grants $5,000 towards travel to share her research with the wider scientific community.