{"id":11304,"date":"2025-07-01T10:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/?post_type=news&#038;p=11304"},"modified":"2025-07-01T10:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:02:58","slug":"wimr-researchers-win-prestigious-transplantation-research-awards","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/news\/wimr-researchers-win-prestigious-transplantation-research-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"WIMR researchers win prestigious transplantation research awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2c90304e wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to WIMR\u2019s Professor Natasha Rogers who was recently awarded the Ian McKenzie Award for Outstanding Contribution in Transplantation at the recent Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand annual scientific meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The award recognises researchers who have demonstrated excellence and exceptional contribution in the field of transplantation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Rogers is Co-Director of WIMR\u2019s Centre for Transplant and Renal Research and leads the Kidney Injury Research Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is also a Senior Staff Specialist in Nephrology at Westmead Hospital and is Head of Transplantation and Director of the Clinical Islet Transplant Program. Professor Rogers is also a conjoint Professor at the University of Sydney, where she is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/researchers\/professor-natasha-rogers\/\">Professor Rogers\u2019 research<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations also to PhD student Harry Robertson who was awarded the President\u2019s Prize at the same meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Natasha-and-Harry-Website-1024x514.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11305\" style=\"width:1030px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Natasha-and-Harry-Website-1024x514.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Natasha-and-Harry-Website-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Natasha-and-Harry-Website-768x385.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Natasha-and-Harry-Website-1536x771.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Natasha-and-Harry-Website-2048x1028.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to WIMR\u2019s Professor Natasha Rogers who was recently awarded the Ian McKenzie Award for Outstanding Contribution in Transplantation at the recent Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand annual scientific meeting. The award recognises researchers who have demonstrated excellence and exceptional contribution in the field of transplantation. Professor Rogers is Co-Director of WIMR\u2019s Centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11306,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categories":[19],"class_list":["post-11304","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cat-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/11304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}