Recognition

Awards & funding

Prizes, awards, fellowships and competitive grants.

Prizes & awards
2021–2024
Dean's Letter of Commendation, University of Notre Dame Australia
Academic excellence in all 4 years of the MD program.
2021
Finalist, Bioethics Oral Disputation, University of Notre Dame Australia
One of four finalists selected from the first-year cohort of medical students.
2019
Awardee, Australia and New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS) Young Investigator Award
2019
Awardee, Vice Chancellor's Awards for Excellence (Outstanding Early Career Research)
2019
Awardee, L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship
One of five fellowships awarded across Australia and New Zealand.
2019
Awardee, Nature Conference on Ageing, Health and Rejuvenation Research Pitch
2018
Awardee, NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award
2017
Finalist, Australia's Top 5 under 40
2016
Best oral presentation, Rank Prize Funds, UK
2016–2021
Recipient, NHMRC Peter Doherty Biomedical Fellowship
2015
Recognition, Top 10 Research Articles and Reviews, Journal of Endocrinology
2013
Awardee, Campion-Ma-Playoust Memorial Award, Australian Society for Medical Research
Awarded annually to a member under the age of 30.
2012
Best oral presentation, 11th National Conference of Emerging Researchers in Ageing
2012–2014
Recipient, University Postgraduate Award (Scholarship)
2010–2012
Recipient, Postgraduate Scholarship
International student university fees fully paid and stipend provided.
Funding
2025
Ideas Grant, NHMRC (CI)
Designing precision dietary therapies for inherited metabolic disorders through nutriphenomics.
2023
Ideas Grant, NHMRC (AI)
Preventing nephron deficit in premature offspring.
2022
Project Grant, HS and JC Anderson Charitable Trust (AI)
Macronutrient effects of maternal and foetal pregnancy health.
2021
Ideas Grant, NHMRC (AI)
Characterisation of erusiolin — a new peptide hormone.
2019
Fellowship, Robinson Fellowship (declined), University of Sydney
One of six tenure-track fellowships to support and retain the University's best early-career academics.
Fellowship, L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship
Project Grant, Sydney Catalyst (CI)
Unravelling the metabolic link between host and breast cancer disease progression.
2018
Project Grant, Australian Research Council Discovery Project (CI)
A life-course approach to the nutrition–lifespan–reproduction nexus.
Fellowship, Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) Fellowship
Age-defying nutrition.
Project Grant, Charles Perkins Centre EMCR Seed Funding (CI)
Put down the protein shake: what BCAAs may be doing to your long-term health.
Harvard University Mobility Scheme (Boston, MA)
Hydrogen sulfide in ageing.
2017
Travel Grant, Ian Potter Foundation (Les Diablerets, Switzerland)
Ageing and late-life health: calories or macronutrients?
2016
Fellowship, NHMRC Early Career Fellowship