\nIvy Chiang \u2013 Best Early to Mid-Career Researcher Oral Presentation<\/strong>
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\nIvy Chiang is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in WIMR\u2019s Centre for Heart Research.<\/p>\n
Ivy\u2019s winning presentation was on ex-vivo (outside an organism) cardiac slice culture, which she has established at Westmead.<\/p>\n
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Hafsa Rana \u2013 Best Early to Mid-Career Researcher Poster Hafsa\u2019s research follows on from her PhD, looking into the initial events that take place during Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) infection within human anogenital tissue. She has been able to show the dynamics of HSV spread within human tissue and the immune cell response during early infection, discovering new targets for future vaccines and immunotherapies against HSV.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Samantha\u2019s project focuses on the interaction between the body\u2019s immune response to tuberculosis (TB) and the reservoir of HIV positive cells in people who are experiencing both conditions at the same time.<\/p>\n Last week, WIMR was delighted to be involved in the Westmead Research and Innovation Conference 2023. It was a remarkable two days of sharing and learning. WIMR\u2019s rising stars shone brightly at the Conference, winning a number of Awards for their posters and presentations. Please join us in congratulating: Ivy Chiang \u2013 Best Early to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3274,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","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":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","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-3267","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\/3267","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\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wimr.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/857b2197-9f2d-4373-9b1d-081554b3156a-scaled.jpeg\")
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\nHafsa Rana is a Postdoctoral Researcher in WIMR\u2019s Centre for Virus Research.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/320ba442-6612-49c0-8945-51f28de4f18d_222_296.jpeg\")
\nSamantha Cronin \u2013 First place poster presentation in the Honours and Hig<\/strong>her Degree Research Student Poster Category<\/strong>
\nSamantha Cronin is a first year PhD student in WIMR\u2019s Centre for Virus Research.<\/p>\n