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= Associate Professor Clare Parish = Associate Professor Clare Parish heads the Stem Cells and Neural Development Laboratory at The Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health, at the University of Melbourne , Melbourne Australia. She obtained her PhD from Monash University, Australia in 2002 and subsequently spent 5 yrs at the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden) under the guidance of Professor Ernest Arenas. She returned to Australia in 2007 to establish her own research group.

She has been the recipient of numerous fellowships including the Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship (2012-17), NHMRC, Australia Career Development Award , Human Frontiers Science Program Fellowship , NHMRC CJ Martin Fellowship. Since gaining her independence, she has had ongoing research funding from both national and international funding bodies including the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council and the Victorian-Californian stem cell alliance. She has >75 publications in leading stem cell and neuroscience journals, has published a number of book chapters, reviews and editorials as well as 3 patents.

Education
Associate Professor Clare Parish obtained her PhD from Monash University, Australia in 2002 PhD, Thesis title: Regulation of dopaminergic axonal arbors. Previously she completed a Bachelor of Biomedical Science, (H1 Honours) Monash University, Australia in 1998.

Clare's Science
Parish has a broad research interest relating to disease modelling and repairing the injured brain. Her research team places a strong emphasis on understanding neural development, with the idea that repairing the injured brain will require recapitulation of many of these early events. Consequently, there are a number of major research themes running within the laboratory, including: understanding the neural development; directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells; molecular mechanisms underlying axonal targeting and synaptogenesis and improving cell-replacement therapy for neural injuries. Of disease relevance, the focus of the research is predominantly the generation of dopamine and cortical neurons for transplantation into models of Parkinson’s disease and stroke. In a more novel approach Parish also employs bioengineered scaffolds to support neural transplants in an effort to improve brain repair.

Publications
Claire has >75 publications in leading stem cell and neuroscience journals, has published a number of book chapters, reviews and editorials.

Patents
• Australian Provisional Patent Application: #2013901150 (2014) Title: Antibodies against human RYK.

• Italian National Research Council, Patent number: #104714L (2011)Title: A synthetic cripto blocking peptide improves embryonic stem cell replacement therapy in parkinsonian rats

Awards and Honours
Burling Award, British Pharmacological Society (2017)

Australian Museum Eureka People’s Choice Award Finalist (2011)

Young Investigator Award, International Society for Neurochemistry, (2010, 2012)

Australian Eureka People’s Choice Award finalist (2010)

Personal
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