Dr Lavinia Tran - Researcher Profile

Biography

Lavinia joined the department in 2006 and completed her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Henry Krum, Dr Andrew Kompa, and Dr Bing Wang. She is currently a Research Fellow with the CCRE in Therapeutics and manages the Australia and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) National Cardiac Surgery Registry.

See: http://www.ccretherapeutics.org.au/information/currentresearch/anzscts.html

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2011

BACHELOR OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE WITH HONOURS

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2007

BACHELOR OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2007

BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE (HONS)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2006

Publications

Journal Articles

Tran, L., Kompa, A., Wang, B., Krum, H., 2011, Evaluation of the effects of Urotensin II and soluble epoxide hydrolase inhibitor on skin microvessel tone in healthy controls and heart failure patients, Cardiovascular Therapeutics [P], vol E, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 1-6.

Tran, L., Kompa, A., Kemp, W., Phrommintikul, A., Wang, B., Krum, H., 2010, Chronic urotensin-II infusion induces diastolic dysfunction and enhances collagen production in rats, American Journal Of Physiology-Heart And Circulatory Physiology [P], vol 298, issue 2, American Physiological Society, United States, pp. 608-613.

Phrommintikul, A., Tran, L., Kompa, A.R., Wang, B.H., Adrahtas, A., Cantwell, D., Kelly, D.J., Krum, H., 2008, Effects of a rho kinase inhibitor on pressure overload induced cardiac hypertrophy and associated diastolic dysfunction, American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology, vol 294, issue 4, American Physiological Society, United States, pp. 1804-1814.