Elizabeth Verghese

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.

Industry experience:
- Collaboration with Dr Glenn Tong from Invictus Biopharmaceuticals