Skip to main content

Congratulations to Manisha Patil, Bob Lee and Dr Richard Tan on receiving awards at the Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR) Annual Scientific Meeting held on Friday 31 May.

Manisha received the Honours/Research Assistant Oral Presentation Award for her presentation “Contribution of TRAIL signalling to endothelial cell and pericyte processes during angiogenesis” about the project she undertook as an Honours student with the Vascular Complications Group at HRI. This project investigated the importance of TRAIL (TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand) coming from endothelial cells and pericytes to the processes of angiogenesis.

I was giv­en a won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty to share the find­ings from my hon­ours project at ASMR, and to be recog­nised for an award about the work I am so pas­sion­ate about is a great hon­our,” Man­isha says.

The award was presented by Dr Daniel Johnstone, an ASMR Director and past President (pictured above with Manisha).

Bob received the Best Student Oral Presentation Award for his presentation on “Fibrillin-1 Enhances Synthetic Vascular Graft Endothelialisation”.

I’m thrilled and very proud of my team and our Insti­tute. It’s very reward­ing to con­firm that our research is con­sid­ered valu­able in the broad­er sci­en­tif­ic com­mu­ni­ty,” Bob says.

Richard received the Best Postdoctoral Poster Presentation Award for his presentation on “Next Generation Encapsulation Devices for Beta-Cell Therapy in Type I Diabetes”.

Give

Every donation to the Heart Research Institute is an investment into the lives of millions.

Help us to make a long-lasting difference by donating now.

Other ways you can help