Alumni
Jerresa Jabson
Jerresa received her Bachelor of Medical Sciences from Macquarie University in 2020. In her last year of Bachelors, Jerresa participated in the 2019 iGEM competition as a member of the Macquarie University team, who achieved a gold medal and the Best Energy Project award. Jerresa commenced her Master of Research in the Department of Molecular Sciences at Macquarie University in 2020, and will commence her thesis project in July 2021. In Yuling Wang's group Jerresa worked on discovery of new glycan biomarkers on exosomes released by breast cancer patients treated by chemotherapy.
Kristina Rhee
Kristina completed a Bachelor of Medical Science at Macquarie University in 2021 and also graduated from a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) at Western Sydney University in 2006. In between the two degrees she founded Gordon Family Medical Practice with her husband Dr Charles Rhee and acted as the Practice Manager until the business was sold in 2017. She also had her wonderful daughter during that time. Kristina has undertaken two Vacation Research Scholarships during Jan/Feb 2021 and Dec/Jan/Feb 2021/2022 in Associate Professor Yuling Wang’s Lab. Kristina has also been involved with the work of the National Indigenous Science Education Program (NISEP) and other Macquarie University science outreach initiatives in both a paid and volunteer capacity. She is also employed as a casual academic demonstrator at the University. Kristina received the Macquarie University Award for Academic Excellent in 2021 and the Thermo Fisher Scientific Prize for outstanding performance in a 3000-level biological science or molecular science unit also in 2021.
Dr. Yuan Liu
Yuan obtained her Bachelor of Science in 2012 in pharmacy at Shihezi University in China and continued with her Master’s project with preparation of several nano-composite materials and their applications in electrochemical sensor. She graduated with her Master of Medicine in 2015 in pharmaceutical analysis at Shihezi University in China and started her PhD at Macquarie University in 2017. Yuan was working on the synthesis and characterization of positively charged nanoparticles with different size and shape, which are used for DNA mutation and methylation analysis by surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS).
Chunxia Li (visiting fellow)
Chunxia received B.S. degree in chemistry major from Northwest University (China) in 2004, and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) in 2009. Then as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (China) from Sep.2012 to Aug.2014, Chunxia mainly carried out research works on the porous polymer membrane preparation and application. She joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (China) as a lecturer in September 2014. Chunxia's research is focused on the preparation and structure control of nano-composite polymer membrane for biosensor and medical filtration.
Ralph El Hallal (master student)
After completion of year 12 at Our Lady of Lebanon, Ralph chose to study Bachelor of Medical Science at University of Sydney from 2014-2016 majoring in biochemistry. The main units covered everything about the body and its functions while strengthening his basic physics and chemistry knowledge. After completion of the course, he decided to undertake a Masters in Radiopharmaceutical Science in hope of obtaining a job at a NSW health hospital for his future endeavours. Ralph's research project was focused on targeting circulating colon cancer cells in patients with a specific focus of utilising cetuximab (C225) as a unique agent, combined with gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) to target the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-positive cells.
Mingkai Wu (master student)
Mingkai received his bachelor of pharmaceutical engineering from Hu Zhou Teachers college in 2016 and started master of Radiopharmaceutical Science in Macquarie in 2017. Mingkai was working on the glycan signature of exosomes by using nanotechnology.