Ms Akanksha Upadhyaya, MMedRes, MBiomedSc
Position:
- PhD Candidate, IHBI, QUT-TRI, QUT
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Biography:
After completing a Bachelor of Science (Hons) Biotechnology at the Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Delhi, India in 2005, Ash moved to Australia where she successfully completed a Master in Biomedical Science at the Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia in 2008.
From June 2008 until June2009 Ash worked as a Technical Assistant in Serology in the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Pathwest Laboratories Medicine in Perth.
In 2012, she succesfully completed a Master of Medical Research at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia for her research project entitled: “Role of Micro-RNA Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (miR-SNPs) in Breast Cancer Susceptibility”.
Ash worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Melbourne- St Vincent’s Institute, Melbourne from April 2013 until December 2013 before enrolling at QUT as a PhD Candidate in February 2014. She is pursuing her PhD research project, entitled:“Targeting EMT to Modulate Prostate Cancer Cell Chemoresistance”, under the supervision of Dr Brett Hollier and Dr Elizabeth Williams of the APCRC-Q.
Prostate Cancer, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition/Plasticity, Chemoresistance, Metastases, Breast Cancer, Micro-RNAs, Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), miR-SNPs..
