Research
Advantage
Candidates 2020
Dr Renee Goreham
Senior Lecturer
School of Information and Physical Sciences
This will allow me to continue to grow my research group with an additional student to investigate the synthesis and characterisation of nanomaterials for biomedical applications.
- renee.goreham@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249138252
Dr Fiona Hawke
Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
We will continue to develop a clinical model to prevent foot and leg complications, including ulceration and amputation, in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with diabetes, and improve cultural capability training in undergraduate podiatry students.
- fiona.hawke@newcastle.edu.au
- 0243494549
Associate Professor Melinda Hutchesson
Associate Professor
School of Health Sciences
The student will have a specific focus on building world-first epidemiological evidence to demonstrate how modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease (e.g. diet, physical inactivity) modify the association between hypertensive pregnancies and cardiovascular health outcomes.
- melinda.hutchesson@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249215405
Dr Tessa Lord
Senior Lecturer
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
The student that takes on the research project will be studying spermatogonial stem cells as a potential tool to treat male infertility.
- tessa.lord@newcastle.edu.au
- 0240553026
Dr Tracy Schumacher
Senior Lecturer/Research Project Manager
University Newcastle Department of Rural Health
The scholarship will allow me to continue to build a small team of focused clinical researchers to be dedicated to the prevention of chronic disease in rural areas. The candidate’s project will align with a local clinical diabetes service.
- tracy.schumacher@newcastle.edu.au
- 0267553560
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