Student awards
UNSW Dean's Award for Outstanding PhD Theses
Eleven Garvan graduates have been selected for UNSW Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses. The Dean's Award formally recognize the high quality PhD theses produced at UNSW. To receive this award, candidates must produce a thesis that in the opinion of both examiners is in the top 10% of PhD theses examined.
The 2021 Garvan recipients were:
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Thesis Title |
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Oliver Skinner |
New insights into the link between protein prenylation and inflammation using models of mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD) |
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Anthony Lau |
An investigation into the impact of dysregulated PI3Kδ signalling on B cell development and autoimmunity |
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Andre Martins Reis |
The development of reference standards for genomics |
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Sunny Wu |
Elucidating the functional diversity of stromal cells in breast tumours using single-cell and spatial transcriptomics |
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Ghamdan Al-Eryani |
Development and implementation of multimodal single cell technologies for human immune profiling |
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The 2019-2020 Garvan recipients were:
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Deborah Burnett |
Investigation into immune tolerance |
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Keeming Chia |
Targeting the androgen receptor in breast cancer |
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Qian Du |
DNA replication timing: impact on the cancer genome and epigenome |
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Katherine Giles |
BRG1 ATP-Dependent Chromatin Remodelling in Prostate Cancer: Epigenetic Consequences |
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Simon Hardwick |
Designing synthetic spike-in controls for next-generation sequencing and beyond |
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Yolanda Colino Sanguino |
Dissecting the role of histone variant H2A.Z acetylation in transcription regulation |
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Stuart Furler Travel Awards
Stuart Furler was a long serving and highly respected scientist in Garvan’s Diabetes and Metabolism Division who died of pancreatic cancer in 2007. His family established the Travel Award in his memory, as a way of nurturing early career scientists.
Third year PhD students are eligible to apply for the Stuart Furler Travel Award, with winners receiving $5,000 to attend a major international conference relevant to their field of research, as well as to visit labs of potential collaborators.
2021 Winners
Alex Corr and Cecilia Chambers
2020 Winners
Marija Simic and Michael Papanicolaou
2019 Winners
Andrew Law and Oliver Skinner
2018 Winners
Etienne Masle-Farquhar and Ghamdan Al Eryani
2017 Winners
Deborah Burnett and Simon Hardwick
2016 Winners
Claire Vennin and Ira Deveson
2015 Winners
Qian Du and Robert Shearer
2014 Winners
Jackie Lau and Louise Cottle
Garvan Thesis Prize
The Garvan Thesis prize formally recognizes one PhD graduate for their high quality PhD thesis and their research achievements during candidature.
Recent winners:
2021 Sunny Wu
2020 Jordan Hastings
2019 Deborah Burnett
2018 Imogen Moran
2017 Claire Vennin
2016 Christoph Jandl
2015 Elisabeth Malle
2014 Saul Bert
