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To celebrate this year's International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we asked PhD Student Jinx Moore some questions about being a woman in science and what advice she has for other women aspiring to a career in science.

To celebrate this year's International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we asked Professor Devanshi Seth from the Centre for Healthy Ageing some questions about being a woman in science and what advice she has for other women aspiring to a career in science.

Dr Bobby Boumelhem, a dedicated researcher at the Centenary Institute, is on a mission to enhance the quality of life for individuals grappling with liver disease. Diseases such as hepatitis, liver cancer, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and cirrhosis pose significant health challenges.

This International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we profile Emma Singer, a PhD student and Research Assistant in the Centenary Institute’s Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics Laboratory.

A medical researcher at the Centenary UTS Centre for Inflammation, Dr Annalicia Vaughan specialises in the gut-lung axis and its role in lung and respiratory diseases.

Originally from Canada, Dr Dan Hesselson, Head of the Centenary Institute’s Directed Evolution Laboratory, has a true passion for ice hockey, a sport he played regularly as a child and one which he still plays recreationally now.

Focus, accuracy and persistence–these are just some of the many qualities possessed by Julie Feng, a researcher in the Centenary Institute’s Gene and Stem Cell Therapy Program and also a world-leading kendo practitioner.

Associate Professor Mathias Francois established the Centenary Institute’s ‘David Richmond Laboratory for Cardiovascular Development: Gene Regulation and Editing’ back in June 2019. It’s the architecture and complexity of the vascular system in humans that he finds particularly fascinating, especially their mode of assembly during embryonic development.

Hi I’m Dr Ulf Schmitz and I lead the Computational BioMedicine Research Laboratory at Centenary.

Hi, I’m Phil Hansbro and I’m Deputy Director at the Centenary Institute as well as Director of the Centenary UTS Centre for Inflammation.

Hi, I’m A/Prof Devanshi Seth and I head Centenary’s Alcoholic Liver Disease Laboratory. 

Hi, I’m Dr Hui Emma Zhang and I research liver cancer at Centenary.