NewHOPE
Newcastle Human Organoid Program for Effective New Therapies
People
NewHOPE Executive Committee
The NewHOPE Executive Committee provides strategic oversight and scientific leadership to guide the biobank’s vision and research priorities. It brings together experts in respiratory and gastrointestinal medicine, nephrology, translational research, and biobanking.
Professor Simon Keely
Professor
School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy
Chair
- simon.keely@newcastle.edu.au
- 0240420229HMRI
Associate Professor Gerard Kaiko
Associate Professor
School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy
Scientific Director
- gerard.kaiko@newcastle.edu.au
- 0240420184
Conj Assoc Prof Christopher Grainge
Conjoint Professor
School of Medicine and Public Health
Clinical Respiratory
Dr Peter Pockney
Honorary Associate Professor
School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy
Clinical Gastroenterology
- peter.pockney@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249855527
Associate Professor Pedro Franca Gois
Staff Specialist, Hunter New England Health
Clinical Nephrology
Associate Professor Katie Baines
Senior Research Fellow
School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy
Research
- katherine.baines@newcastle.edu.au
- 0240420090
Professor Jay Horvat
Professor
School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy
Research
- jay.horvat@newcastle.edu.au
- 0240420220
Dr Marie Parsons
NewHOPE Project Manager
School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy
Biobank Manager
- marie.j.parsons@newcastle.edu.au
- 0240420859
Staff
Dr Lakshitha Gunawardhana
HMRI Research Laboratory Manager/Casual Academic - Open Foundation
School of Medicine and Public Health
Respiratory specialist
- lakshitha.gunawardhana@newcastle.edu.au
- 0240420852
Collaborators
Professor Bobby Chacko
Conjoint Professor
School of Medicine and Public Health
Kidney and Urinary Biobank Oversight Committee
- bobby.chacko@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249214321
Mr Matt Rowlandson
Conjoint Associate Lecturer
School of Medicine and Public Health
Kidney and Urinary Biobank Oversight Committee
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