Medical Science

Prof Janice Aldrich-Wright
Research expertise and interests: Drug discovery, platinum compounds.
j.aldrich-wright@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Cherylea Browne
Research expertise and interests: Mal de Debarquement Syndrome, Vestibular Neuroscience, Neural Interfaces, Auditory Neuroscience, Neurophysiology, Human Anatomy
c.browne@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Liza Cubeddu
Research expertise and interests: DNA repair and chromatin remodelling, biochemical biophysical and structural techniques.
l.cubeddu@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Manisha Dayal
Research expertise and interests: Forensic anthropology, human anatomy, anatomical variation, 3D printing technology, 3D imaging.
m.dayal@westernsydney.edu.au

Assoc Prof Qihan Dong
Research expertise and interests: quiescent cancer cells.
q.dong@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Christopher Gordon
Research expertise and interests: Organic chemistry, flow chemistry.
c.gordon2@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Hayley Green
Research expertise and interests: Forensic anthropology, taphonomy, decomposition and time since death studies, anatomical variation, anatomy education.
h.green@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Graham Jones
Research expertise and interests: Immunology, atopy, asthma and eczema.
graham.jones@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Cindy Kersaitis
Research expertise and interests: Neuropathology, pathogenic mechanisms in neurodegenerative dementia.
c.kersaitis@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Cheang Khoo
Research expertise and interests: Quality control and chemical characterisation of herbal medicines, heavy metal analysis.
c.khoo@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Antonio Lauto
Research expertise and interests: Medical physics.
a.lauto@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Michelle Moffitt
Research expertise and interests: Medical applications of cyanobacteria.
m.moffitt@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Oliver Morton
Research expertise and interests: Fungal interactions with host organisms in causing disease.
o.morton@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Simon Myers
Research expertise and interests: Sensory neuropathies.
s.myers@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Srinivas Nammi
Research expertise and interests: Metabolic syndrome, obesity, dyslipidaemia, Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, chronic kidney disease.
s.nammi@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Gabriel Perrone
Research expertise and interests: Redox, DNA damage, ROS, lipid metabolism, mitochondrial function, yeast, genetics, cell biology.
g.perrone@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Sabine Piller
Research expertise and interests: Protein arginine methylation and its impact in various diseases (cancer and neuronal disease) and in plants.
s.piller@westernsydney.edu.au

Prof William Price
Research expertise and interests: Magnetic Resonance, Medical Physics and Physical Chemistry: Especially molecular dynamics in biological (e.g., tumours, plants) and chemical systems using NMR imaging (i.e., MRI), relaxation and NMR measurements of translational diffusion. His research has direct applications to a wide range of practical problems including cancer treatment, pharmaceutical screening and lithium batteries.
w.price@westernsydney.edu.au

Assoc Prof Peter Shortland
Research expertise and interests: Acute and chronic pain mechanisms associated with peripheral nerve and spinal root injuries & pathways associated with somatosensory processing of thermosensation.
p.shortland@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Colin Stack
Research expertise and interests: Protozoan parasites that affect cattle and domestic animals. Novel treatment strategies in human microbial diseases.
c.stack@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Mark Temple
Research expertise and interests: Transcriptional regulatory networks important in the cellular responses to oxidative stress.
m.temple@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Ming Wu
Research expertise and interests: Oxidative stress, metal toxicity, cancer and antimicrobial drug development.
m.wu@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Gang Zheng
Research expertise and interests: Background gradient suppression and solvent suppression in NMR experiments. Multi-quantumn NMR diffusion, convection compensation NMR diffusion experiments, quantitative structure and activity/property relationship (QSAR/QSPR) studies of persistent organic pollutants, and the application of pattern recognition to environmental science.
g.zheng@westernsydney.edu.au