Selected achievements

Discoveries

• Role of plasmepsin V in gametocyte transmission to mosquitoes
• Role of O-glycosylation in malaria parasite virulence
• Identification of plasmepsin V as the PEXEL protease
• Contribution to the discovery of PTEX (the Plasmodium translocon of exported proteins)
• Development of plasmepsin V inhibitors that block protein export and kill the parasite

Awards 

2014 Burnet Prize

2011 Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship, Australian Research Council

2011 Rod Rickards Fellowship, Australian Academy of Science

2011 Sir Keith Murdoch Fellowship, American Australian Association

2010 Victorian Young Tall Poppy Award for Science, Australian Institute of Policy and Science

Grants and funding 

2020 Investigator Grant, National Health and Medical Research Council

2018 Wellcome Trust Seeding Drug Discovery Grant

2017 Career Development Fellowship Level 2, National Health and Medical Research Council

2013 Young Investigator Program Grant, Human Frontier Science Program

2013, 2018 Project Grants, National Health and Medical Research Council

Service to the community 

2017 Public Seminar, Australia & New Zealand Association for Advancement of Science

2015 Public Seminar, Hawthorn Rotary Club

2014 Public Seminar, John Macrae Centre Annual General Meeting

2014 Member of the Women in Science Parkville Precinct (WISPP)