ACN Newsletter Dec 2018 – May 2019

Achievement Highlights Dec 2018 – May 2019

Prof Justin Gooding • Elected ATSE Fellow

Prof Maria Kavallaris • Member of the Order of Australia (AM) • Lemberg Medal - awarded to a distinguished ASBMB member who demonstrated excellence in biochemistry and molecular biology and for significant contributions to the scientific community!

Prof Cyrille Boyer: • appointed as Associate Editor for European Polymer Journal (Elsevier, IF

3.5) • a member of editorial board of Macromolecules (ACS Journal, IF 5.8)

Dr Angelica Merlot - Scientia Research Fellow • Awarded 2019 NSW Young Woman of the Year for her research into

drug-resistant cancers

A/Prof Phoebe Phillips • Started her 2019 Eisenhower Fellowship in the US

Dr Rona Chandrawati • Awarded 2018 Outstanding Supervisor Award by Arc UNSW

2018 Research Student Awards awarded by Arc UNSW (From left to right)

• Florida Voli (Kavallaris Group) • Phoebe Chen (Gooding Group) • Fed Mazur (Chandrawati Group)

Outreach

Congratulations go to our co-Director Prof Maria Kavallaris for inspiring the next generation of scientists to greatness! Maria was invited to give the occasional address at UNSWScience Graduation on Wednesday 8 May.

Rona Chandrawati and Damia Mawad SPARK: Kindling Girls’ Passion for STEM (presentation to NSW high school girls), 5 March 2019

Parisa Mozzam (Gooding group) & Yi Pei (Kilian Group) UNSW Women in Maths and Science Champions Program

• Making PLA crowns with students from Rainbow Street Public School using the 3D pen provided by Kris Kilian

ACN Seed Funding

Congratulations go to the following students for being awarded 2019 ACN Seed Funding

Name Supervisor Topic Award $

Mr Zijie Luo

Guozhen Liu

AIEgen based naked-eye monitoring of human serum albumin towards point-of-care diagnosis of hypoalbuminemia

5000

Ms Rashin Namivandi-Zangeneh

Cyrille Boyer

Combating Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria Biofilms with Antimicrobial Polymer-Nitric Oxide-Antibiotics Synergistic Cocktail

4000

Mr Zhenbang Cao

Sophia Gu Interactions of Mn-incorporated nanoparticles in 3D cell model and its implication in cancer therapy

3000

Ms Jagjit Kaur

Guozhen Liu

MOF-based biosensor for the detection of superoxide ions

3000

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Graduations

3 of our own: Kristel, Manish and Yanfang graduated at the UNSW Science Graduation Ceremony held on Wednesday 8th May last week. Congratulations! Meet our newly minted Dr Kristel Tjandra, Dr Yanfang Wu & Dr Manish Sriram & their proud supervisors! Kristel was supervised by Prof Palli Thordarson; Yanfang & Manish were supervised by Scientia Prof Justin Gooding.

Kristel, Manish and Yanfang have been ACN stalwarts and attended the Nanomed conference every year through their PhD! Let’s take a trip down the memory lane and have a look at some photos of Kristel, Manish and Yanfang as newbies at the 2016 Nanomed Conference!

Manish has taken an Industry job and is doing well. Kristel and Yanfang are both PostDocs at the Gooding group and will return to the 2019 Nanomed Conference as volunteer teamleaders!

Upcoming Events

- NSW Science & Research Breakfast Seminar Wednesday 19 June 2019 Professor Maria Kavallaris AM presents: 'How Nanomedicine is Changing Cancer Treatment' To register: Please click here.

- 10th International Nanomedicine Conference, June 24-26 2019, Pier One Sydney Harbour Hotel. If you haven’t registered already, please register now! For group registrations, please contact Kimberly. See you all there!