Dr Meghan McIlwain, Clinical Research Manager
President, The New Zealand Association of Clinical Research,
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
Bench Side Story continues with a Clinical Research Manager, and President of New Zealand Association of Clinical Research based in Auckland, NEW ZEALAND.
Dr Meghan McIlwain is a Clinical Research Manager, the President of the New Zealand Association of Clinical Research, a pharmacist and a guest lecturer at the University of Auckland School of Pharmacy. Through her career she’s been a hospital pharmacist, a community pharmacist, a postgraduate student, a postdoctoral researcher, a lecturer and an independent research consultant. Her PhD in is Pharmacy; specifically neuropsychopharmacology.
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Investigating invasive lobular carcinoma and metaplastic breast cancer sub-types
Assoc Prof McCart Reed is the scientific lead on an MRFF-funded (Medical Research Future Fund) genomics program investigating the potential for the application of Whole Genome Sequencing in the breast cancer care pathway in Australia, ‘Q-IMPROvE’. She applies genomics and spatial transcriptomics methodologies to archival clinical samples to understand the differences between tumour types and their potential for treatment. Amy is passionate about clinical research, biobanking and precision oncology. In addition to her breast cancer research portfolio, she is on the steering committee for the Brisbane Breast Bank and the Scientific Advisory Board for Breast Cancer Trials.
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Exercise program for the prevention of osteoporotic fracture
Dr Beck is an international leader in the effects of mechanical loading on bone health. Dr Beck graduated from The University of Queensland (BHMS[Ed]) and the University of Oregon (MSc and PhD) and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Stanford University School of Medicine (California, USA.) She is a Professor of Exercise Science at Griffith University Gold Coast campus, where she has led the Bone Densitometry Research Laboratory since 2004.
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Dr Dinesh Palipana
RESEARCH IN SPINAL CORD INJURY
@ GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
