Rising Stars

The Rising Star Awards support the careers of our talented young scientists by providing seed funding for their research. They are intended to be pump-priming awards with an expected outcome of enhancing the recipients’ competitiveness to attract further funding from granting bodies or industry.

The 2022 Rising Star Award recipients are:

	Dr Rohan Bythell-Douglas Research Officer, Genome stability unit
	Dr Jacki Heraud-Farlow Research Officer, Cancer & RNA biology unit
	Dr Carlos Andres Peña Solorzano Research Officer, Bioinformatics & cellular genomics unit
	Dr Prerak Trivedi Research Officer, Islet biology unit
	Dr Natalie Wee Research Officer, Bone cell biology & disease unit

The 2021 Rising Star Award recipients are:

	Dr Christina Azodi Postdoctoral Researcher, Bioinformatics & cellular genomics unit
	Dr Astrid Glaser Postdoctoral Researcher, Genome stability unit
	Dr Jarmon Lees Postdoctoral Researcher, Cardiac regeneration unit
	Dr Cynthia Liu Postdoctoral Researcher, Bioinformatics & cellular genomics unit
	Dr Michael Sharp Postdoctoral Researcher, DNA repair & recombination unit
	Dr Gavin Tjin Postdoctoral Researcher, Stem cell regulation unit
	Dr Jessie Yang Postdoctoral Researcher, Diabetes & metabolic disease unit

The 2020 Rising Star Award recipients are:

	Dr Chris Langendorf Senior Research Officer, Protein chemistry & metabolism unit
	Dr Ashfaqul Hoque Postdoctoral Research Officer, Metabolic signalling unit
	Dr Natalie Wee Postdoctoral Fellow, Bone cell biology & disease unit
	Dr Pushpak Bhattacharjee Research Officer, Human immunology unit