Maria Kavallaris: Celebrating our amazing students at the Randwick Clinical Campus Emerging Researchers Symposium 2024
Maria Kavallaris, Founding Director of the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine at the University of New South Wales, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Absolutely thrilled to celebrate our amazing students, Lakshika Keerthirathna and Philipp Graber who delivered outstanding presentations at the Randwick Clinical Campus Emerging Researchers Symposium 2024 today!
A special shout-out to Lakshika, who won the Best Oral Prize for her fascinating PhD talk on generating in vivo CAR-T cells to treat pediatric brain cancer – Ernest Moles PhD and I couldn’t be prouder of you!
Huge congratulations to all the winners and presenters – it’s clear that the future of medical research is in incredibly capable hands!”
Children’s Cancer Institute shared this post, adding:
“Please join us in congratulating Lakshika Keerthirathna for winning the Best Oral Prize at the Randwick Clinical Campus Emerging Researchers Symposium.”
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Dr. Maria Kavallaris is Founding Director of the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine at the University of New South Wales, Head of the Translational Cancer Nanomedicine Theme at the Children’s Cancer Institute and a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator.
Maria is recognised for her innovation in driving multidisciplinary research in cancer nanomedicine. Maria is Chair of the Australian Institute for Policy and Science, and a Life Member and past-President of the Australian Society for Medical Research. The impact of her research has been recognised many times, including via receipt of the Australian Museum Eureka Prize, as well as being named by the NHMRC as an Australian ‘high achiever’ in health and medical research.
She is an elected Fellow of both the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of New South Wales. Maria was named the 2020 NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year.
In 2019, Professor Kavallaris was appointed a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia for her significant service to medicine, and to medical research, in the field of childhood and adult cancers. Maria received the 2022 Presidential Medal for Outstanding Contributions, Republic of Cyprus.
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