STAFF PROFILE
Dr Elizabeth Verghese
Position:
Assistant Associate Dean, Biomedical Sciences
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|Health and Biomedical Sciences
Phone:
+61399250282
Campus:
Bundoora West
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Dr Elizabeth Verghese completed her PhD by publication in 2010 at Monash University, on an Australian postgraduate award. She worked as an assistant lecturer in Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at Monash University in 2010 and a lecturer at Victoria University (VU)from 2011-2019. She has driven a cross institutional research programs on cilium-based therapies for renal repair and therapeutic targets for metastatic cancer with collaborators from Monash, St Vincent's hospital, VU and industry partners. Elizabeth was awarded the 2013 Victorian Young Achiever award for the BASF Science and Technology category and Victoria University's Vice chancellor's award for research and research training ( Early career researcher) in 2013. As the chief investigator, she has obtained $97, 592 in grant funding from VU and the Betty Lowe memorial fund and a confocal microscope grant from VU for $225,700. Elizabeth's efforts to transform curriculum by contextualising theory in the context of clinical practice in the Bachelor of Nursing and Midwifery degree and in the context of research in the Bachelor of Biomedical Science and the Bachelor of Biomedicine course were recognised by awards for Excellence in Teaching and Learning from the College of Health and Biomedicine in 2017 and a citation for the VU Vice Chancellor's Excellence in Teaching and Learning award in 2018.
Honours and PhD supervision
PhD students
- 2019 onwards Asha Tonkin Reeves Melbourne University
- 2018 onwards Charlett Guillini Victoria University
Master student
- 2013-2015 Troy Gosetti, Victoria University
Honours students
- 2019 Druvni Perara, Melbourne University; Jayden Ham, Victoria University
- 2018 Natasha Sturre, Victoria University; Asha Tonkin Reeves, Victoria University; Canh Vinh, Victoria University
- 2012 Troy Gosetti, Victoria University and Emma Tuckett, Victoria University
Elizabeth Verghese is available to supervise Honours, Masters and PhD stundents
- 2011 Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education, Victoria University, Australia
- 2010 Doctor of Philosophy, Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories, Australia
- 2005 Bachelor of Bio-medical Science (Honours), Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories, Australia
Collaboration with Dr Glenn Tong from Invictus Biopharmaceuticals
- Verghese, E.,Martelotto, L.,Cain, J.,Williams, T.,Wise, A.,Hill, P.,Langham, R.,Watkins, D.,Ricardo, S.,Deane, J. (2019). Renal epithelial cells retain primary cilia during human acute renal allograft rejection injury In: BMC Research Notes, 12, 1 - 5
- Tuckett, E.,Gosetti, T.,Hayes, A.,Rybalka, E.,Verghese, E. (2015). Increased calcium in neurons in the cerebral cortex and cerebellum is not associated with cell loss in the mdx mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy In: NeuroReport, 26, 785 - 790
- Deane, J.,Verghese, E.,Martelotto, L.,Cain, J.,Galtseva, A.,Rosenblum, N.,Watkins, D.,Ricardo, S. (2013). Visualizing renal primary cilia In: Nephrology, 18, 161 - 168
1 PhD Completions