Our Highlights, Honours & Prizes

Members of the Dendritic Cell Research group are often recipients of awards and prizes in recognition of their excellent work and contribution to our understanding of dendritic cells.

Some of the most recent award winners and details of their projects…

 

Year Name Highlight, Honour or Prize
2019 Wei-Hsun (Blake) Hsu Awarded his PhD degree
2019 Georgina Clark invited to chair at the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting 2019 in Sydney, NSW
2019 DCR Signed agreements to commercialise our anti-CD83 mAb for first in human clinical trial
2018 DCR DC Down Under 2018 remembered Professor Derek Hart in which Sir John Hood, Dr Christopher Winearls and Professor Mark Hogarth shared their memories of Derek throughout his career, at an evening in the Great Hall, University of Sydney. This was followed by a one day Symposium with Professor Kathryn Wood from Oxford University as the invited speaker and many of Australia’s best dendritic cell researchers presenting their work amongst their memories collaborating with Derek
2018 Pablo Silveira invited speaker at the ASI NSW ACT Joint Branch Meeting 2018 in Kiama, NSW
2018 Michael Papadimitrious Awarded his PhD degree
2018 DCR Awarded 2018 Sydney Catalyst, Pilot Seed Funding
2018 Tusn Ho (Kevin) Lo Awarded his PhD degree
2018 Pablo Silveira Awarded the 2018 Concord Hospital Research Travel Grant to present at The Transplantation Society 2018 International Congress in Madrid, Spain presenting an invited guest lecture to the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (Oxford UK) en route.
2018 Ziduo (Cindy) Li 3rd Prize in Concord Hospital 3 Minute Thesis Competition.
2018 Xinsheng Ju Awarded the 2018 Concord Hospital Research Travel Grant to present a poster at the 15th International Symposium on Dendritic Cells (DC2018) in Aachen, Germany.
2018 Ziduo (Cindy) Li Awarded the 2018 Concord Hospital Research Travel Grant, European Haematology Association Travel Grant and University of Sydney Postgraduate Research Support Scheme to present a poster at European Haematology Association Congress in Stockholm, Sweden.
2018 Hsiao-Ting (Kate) Chen Awarded the 2018 Concord Hospital Research Travel Grant and University of Sydney Postgraduate Research Support Scheme to present a poster at The American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas.
2017 Wei-Hsun (Blake) Hsu Awarded the best PhD presentation prize at the ASI NSW ACT Joint Branch Meeting 2017 in Bowral, NSW
2017 Robin Gasiorowski Awarded his PhD degree
2017 Derek Hart One of six finalists presenting at The Big Idea symposium
2017 Derek Hart Presented a tour de force on developing specific immunosuppression by targeting dendritic cells with monoclonal antibodies to CD83 at the DC Down Under 2017 meeting
2017 Christian Bryant Awarded his PhD degree
2017 DCR Awarded 2017 Cancer Institute New South Wales, Translational Program Grant
2017 Jen Hsu Sydney Catalyst Postgraduate and Early Career Research Symposium, Best Translational Project Presentation
2017 Wei-Hsun (Blake) Hsu Sydney Catalyst Postgraduate and Early Career Research Symposium, Best T1/T2 Project Presentation
2016 Derek Hart The Leo Dintenfass Memorial Award for Excellence in Research
2015 Wei-Hsun (Blake) Hsu Concord Hospital Three Minute Thesis Competition
2015 Phillip Fromm Best Project Presentation for the 2015 Sydney Catalyst International Translational Cancer Research Symposium
2015 Christian Bryant Sydney Catalyst Three Minute Thesis Competition
2015 DCR Awarded National Health Medical Research Council – Development Grant
2015 Hsiao-Ting (Kate) Chen CRGH Early Career Research Competition
2015 Michael Papadimitrious To attend AAI Conference
2015 Phillip Fromm Rebecca Cooper Foundation
2014 Michael Papadimitrious Arrow Hawkesbury Canoe Classic PhD Scholarship
2014 Michael Papadimitrious Charles Perkins Centre and Marie Bashir Institute for infectious disease and Biosecurity
2014 Nirupama Verma CRGH Research Travelling Scholarship
2014 Pablo Silveira USYD / NHMRC Equipment Grant
2014 Pablo Silveira SPARC Grant

 

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