Congratulations to PhD student Simin Zheng who passed her PhD Confirmation on Thursday13 February. Simin’s work is supported by the MHF Centre for Brain Cancer Research and College of Health, Medicine & Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle.
Simin’s project will explore repurposing existing drugs in the fight against Glioblastoma (GBM). Her work will investigate whether existing FDA-approved drugs can be used in combination with radiotherapy to overcome treatment resistance in GBM by making the tumour cells more sensitive to treatment by radiotherapy and/or temozolomide chemotherapy the current primary therapies for GBM treatment.
Simin is supervised by Associate Professor Paul Tooney, Scientific Stream Leader Experimental Therapeutics in the MHF Centre along with Professor Nikola Bowden and Dr Michelle Wong-Brown from HMRI’s Equity in Health and Wellbeing Program.
We can’t wait to see the results of Simin’s work!
