The School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at UNSW

The University of New South Wales

A leading research and teaching school with expertise in biotechnology, molecular biology, genetics, environmental microbiology, medical microbiology, immunology, biochemistry, protein chemistry and other areas of biological science.

External Honours Projects

PROFESSOR ELIZABETH BURCHER                                     

email: e.burcher@unsw.edu.au
School of Medical Sciences, UNSW
Tel: +612 9385 2562
Research area: Neurochemicals chemicals and receptors: Functions in human health and
disease

DR DANIEL CHRIST                                                        

email: d.christ@garvan.org.au
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst
Tel: +612 9295 8100
Research area: Antibody engineering and directed evolution

DR ANTONY COOPER                                              

email: A.cooper@garvan.org.au
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst 
Tel: +612 9295 8100
Research area: Molecular mechanisms of Neurodegenerative diseases

A/PROFESSOR GREG COONEY                                              

email: g.cooney@garvan.org.au
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst
Tel: +612 9295 8100
Research area: Molecular metabolism, obesity and insulin resistance

A/PROFESSOR JULIAN COX

email: julian.cox@unsw.edu.au
Faculty of Science, UNSW
Tel: +612 9385 8574
Research area: food (especially poultry) microbiology, food safety, diagnostics, enteric pathogens, education

DR ANTHONY DON                                      

email: anthonyd@unsw.edu.au
Cancer Research Centre, UNSW
Tel: +612 9385 1003
Research area: Control of cancer cell proliferation and survival by natural and synthetic sphingolipids More Information

A/PROFESSOR SALY DUNWOODIE                                      

email: s.dunwoodie@victorchang.edu.au
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst
Tel: +612 9295 8613
Research area: Molecular mechanisms of mammalian embryonic development More Information

A/PROFESSOR DIANE FATKIN                            

email: d.fatkin@victorchang.edu.au
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst
Tel: +612 9295 8618
Research area: Molecular mechanisms of inherited heart diseases More Information

PROFESSOR LYN GILBERT                                    

email: lyng@icpmr.wsahs.nsw.gov.au
Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Hospital
Tel: +612 9845 6255
Research area: Unrecognised causes of urethritis in males

PROFESSOR BOB GRAHAM                              

email: b.graham@victorchang.edu.au
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst
Tel: +612 9295 8602
Research area: Molecular cell biology of the heart in health and disease

PROFESSOR DAVID JAMES                                           

email: d.james@garvan.org.au
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst
Tel: +612 9295 8210
Research area: Signal transduction, vesicle transport and metabolic disease

A/PROFESSOR MARIA KAVALLARIS                            

email: mkavallaris@ccia.unsw.edu.au
Faculty of Medicine, Children’s Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research, Randwick
Tel: +612 9382 1823
Research area: The use of nanotechnology to deliver therapeutics to target cancer cells

DR RICHARD LOCK                                          

email: richard.lock@unsw.edu.au
Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research, Randwick
Tel: +612 9382 1846.
Research area: Molecular mechanisms of drug resistance and new therapeutic approaches
in childhood acute leukaemia

PROFESSOR CHARLES MACKAY                                      

email: c.mackay@garvan.org.au
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst
Tel: +612 9295 8405
Research area: Characterisation of the therapeutic potential of anti-GM-CSF antibodies

DR KAREN MACKENZIE                                            

email: k.mackenzie@unsw.edu.au
Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research, Randwick
Tel: +612 9382 1829
Research area: The regulation of telomere length in haematopoietic cells

DR SANDRA O'TOOLE

email: s.otoole@garvan.org.au
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst
Tel: +612 9295 8100
Research area: Developmental pathways in breast cancer development and progression

DR JOHN PIMANDA

email: jpimanda@unsw.edu.au
Lowy Cancer Research Centre / Prince of Wales Clinical School
Tel: +612 9385 1003 / +612 9382 8866
Research area: Gene Regulatory Circuits in Normal and Dysplastic Haematopoietic and Mesenchymal Stem Cells More Information / More Information

A/PROFESSOR THOMAS PREISS                             

email: t.preiss@victorchang.edu.au
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst
Tel: +612 9295 8632
Research area: RNA biology & translational control of gene expression

PROFESSOR BILL RAWLINSON                                      

email: w.rawlinson@unsw.edu.au
Virology Division, Dept. of Microbiology, SEALS Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick
Tel: +612 9382 9113
Research area: Molecular biology of viruses

DR NABILA SEDDIKI

email: n.seddiki@cfi.unsw.edu.au
HIV Immunovirology Research Laboratory, St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research (AMR), Darlinghurst
Tel: +612 8382 4945
Research area: regulatory T cells, HIV, antigen-specific T cells, immunity, tolerance

DR PABLO SILVEIRA

email: p.silveira@garvan.org.au
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst
Tel: +612 9295 8456
Research area: B lymphocytes and Autoimmune diseases More Information

DR DANIELA STOCK                                           

email: d.stock@victorchang.edu.au
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst
Tel: +612 9295 8600
Research area: Structural and computational biology

DR ALEX SWARBRICK                                        

email: a.swarbrick@garvan.org.au
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst
Tel: +612 9295 8366
Research area: Proteins and microRNAs that control the cancer stem cell phenotype

DR STUART TANGYE                                                

email: s.tangye@garvan.org.au
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst
Tel: +612 9295 8455
Research area: Human immune system

DR GRAHAM VESEY                                        

email: graham.vesey@regeneus.com.au
Regeneus Pty Ltd, Gordon
Tel: +612 9089 8740
Research area: Use of adipose derived adult stem cells to treat disease in humans and animals

DR MERRIDEE WOUTERS                                        

email: m.wouters@victorchang.edu.au
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst
Tel: +612 9295 8600
Research area: Structural bioinformatics