I completed my BSc (Hons) in Microbiology at The University of Melbourne in 1994. I then joined the laboratory of Professor Matthew Gillespie at St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, to undertake my post-graduate studies. During my PhD, I investigated the role of prohormone processing in the regulation of the biological activity of parathyroid hormone-related protein and identified a novel member of the prohormone convertase family, PC8. In 1998, I completed my PhD and was awarded a Juvenile Diabetes International Junior Fellowship to continue my work on prohormone convertases at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Health Sciences, Denver, USA.
In 2000, I joined the laboratory of Professor Gavin Brooks at the University of Reading to study the role that cell cycle regulators play in controlling cardiac myocyte proliferation and cardiac hypertrophy. In 2003, I was awarded a British Heart Foundation Intermediate Fellowship to investigate the roles that Forkhead transcription factors play in regulating cardiac myocyte growth. My research interests focus on the elucidation of the molecular and cellular processes that limit cardiac myocyte proliferation and promote cardiac myocyte hypertrophy. |
