by Professor Nadia Rosenthal, Director of the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
Hear internationally acclaimed stem cell researcher, Professor Nadia Rosenthal, speak of the new world of regenerative medicine ahead and her role as Founding Director of Monash University’s new Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute. On the eve of a major medical revolution, this seminar will reveal the expected extent of improvements to health care in the not too distant future.
Date: Thursday, 23 August
Time: 7:15 – 8:45am
Venue: The Athenaeum Club, 87 Collins Street, Melbourne
Cost: $42.50 per person or $380 per table of ten
RSVP: Monday 20 August to mnhs.rsvp@med.monash.edu.au or (03) 9905 5971
Professor Rosenthal is currently from the world-renowned European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) where she leads the Rome, Italy outstation coordinating an international program in mouse models of human disease. Her own research concentrates on:
- Embryonic heart development
- Mechanisms of ageing
- Stem cell-mediated regeneration of neuromuscular and cardiac tissues
Professor Rosenthal also holds a chair in cardiovascular medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute of Imperial College London. At the College she serves as scientific director of the Heart Science Centre with Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub FRS, the world famous heart transplant surgeon. Together Professors Rosenthal and Yacoub are looking for new regenerative ways to treat heart failure.
Prior to joining EMBL and Imperial College, Professor Rosenthal directed a laboratory at Harvard Medical School’s Cardiovascular Research Center and was a consultant on molecular medicine for the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. She gained her doctorate in biology at Harvard Medical School and her undergraduate degree (magna cum laude) from Harvard University.
