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Investigating medicine

24 September 2008

Julianne Bayliss
Julianne Bayliss

PhD student Julianne Bayliss has received the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand's Young Investigator Award for her research into antibody mediated rejection in heart transplant patients.

Ms Bayliss was presented with her award at the XXII International Congress of the Transplantation Society in Sydney. This prize is awarded to an early career scientist based on the quality of an oral or poster presentation at the congress.

Ms Bayliss said she was surprised and thrilled to receive the award.

"I went to the congress hoping to get some feedback from the other researchers about my study ahead of submitting my thesis, so receiving the award reinforced that I'm on the right track," Ms Bayliss said.

Ms Bayliss, who is based in the Department of Medicine at the Alfred Hospital, has enjoyed a whirlwind six months, being nominated as a finalist in the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand's prestigious Ralph Reader Prize Session as well as the Transplantation Society's President's Prize Symposium. In this time Ms Bayliss has also published two articles on the role of vascular endothelial growth factor in cardiac transplant rejection.

"It's been an amazing year so far," Ms Bayliss said.

"My supervisors Professor Catriona McLean and Dr Alicia Stein have been brilliant and I'm looking forward to handing in my thesis and settling into a post doctoral position with Professor McLean."