Western PhD candidate awarded NHMRC Scholarship
Dr Yanna Ko, a PhD candidate at Western Sydney University, has been awarded a prestigious National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Postgraduate Scholarship.
The scholarship will support Dr Ko’s research exploring faecal microbiota transplantation as a method of restoring healthy gut bacteria when treating irritable bowel syndrome.
Dr Ko is one of sixty-two outstanding health and medical graduates that will share in more than $7 million of funding to support their research training through this year’s Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme.
“This scholarship will help support much-needed research into an extremely common condition where better treatment options are still being developed,” said Dr Ko.
“Medical research is the backbone of advancing medicine and patient care. It is critical to ensure optimal and personal medical therapies.
“Western Sydney University has a great gastroenterology research team to support this exciting high impact research.”
An accredited Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist, Dr Ko is currently completing a PhD on irritable bowel syndrome therapeutics at the University’s School of Medicine.
Her area of interest is functional gut disorders and she has multiple publications in peer-reviewed Gastroenterology journals.
Supervisor, Dr Vincent Ho, also from the School of Medicine, offered his congratulations to Dr Ko on the prestigious scholarship.
“Dr Ko has a great track record of achievements to date and the very exciting research that she is spearheading in faecal microbiota transplantation has enormous clinical potential," he said.
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Postgraduate Scholarships scheme supports outstanding health and medical graduates early in their career so they can be trained to conduct research that is internationally competitive and develop a capacity for original independent research within Australia.
ENDS
5 December 2022
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