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 |