Dr Carolina Soekmadji
Position:
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre - Queensland
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Biography:
Dr Soekmadji joined the APCRC-Q in 2010 to investigate exosomes as prostate cancer biomarkers and the application of targeted nanoparticles to image prostate cancer, and subsequently received a US Department of Defense Postdoctoral Training Award for her project: Exosomes Biomarkers: defining prognosis for drug and castrate resistant prostate cancer.
After working at the University of Stuttgart in Germany on the design of a DNA microarray to detect bacteria, which cause pneumonia sepsis, she accepted an International Postgraduate Research Scholarship and Melbourne International Reseach Scholarship to study in Australia. There she completed her PhD in the Department of Genetics, at the University of Melbourne in 2009, investigating the role of the stoned protein family in exocytosis/endocytosis of synaptic vesicles.
Prior to joining APCRC-Q, she held a postdoctoral research position at the University of Queensland, investigating the involvement of dynamin in regulating the fusion pore dynamic and its role in the scission step during endocytosis of secretory granules in pancreatic acinar cells.
Dr Soekmadji joined the APCRC - Q in 2010 to investigate exosomes as prostate cancer biomarkers and the application of targeted nanoparticles to image prostate cancer. Dr Soekmadji recently received the FY11 Department of Defence, US Army Postdoctoral Training Award for her project: Exosomes Biomarkers: defining prognosis for drug and castrate resistant prostate cancer.
Research interests: biomarkers, drug and castrate resistance, nanoparticles, imaging in prostate cancer
exosomes, secretory granules, Biomarkers, 3D culture, Imaging.
