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Sharon D Ricardo PhD

Associate Professor Sharon Ricardo obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne in 1994. Thereafter, she was awarded a US National Kidney Foundation Fellowship to conduct postdoctoral studies at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine where she was appointed an Assistant Professor in 1996. In 2000 she returned to Australia as an NHMRC Howard Florey Fellow and commenced studies at Monash University. She is currently a Principal Investigator of the Australian Stem Cell Centre and a Senior Research Fellow and Group Leader in the Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories (MISCL), Monash University.

Dr Ricardo has attracted funding from Kidney Health Australia, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the Australian Stem Cell Centre. She was named the Kidney Health Australia Bootle Scholar (2003-2007). She has previously held a US National Kidney Foundation Fellowship (1994-1996); an American Heart Association Initiator Investigator Fellowship; and received the Judy S. Finkelstein Award from Pennsylvania Sate University College of Medicine; and the Marion Merrell Dow Excellence in Renal Research Award from the American Physiological Society. With 31 peer-reviewed published papers mainly in leading kidney journals, two book chapters, six invited reviews she has received research grant funding totaling $3.2K from national and international granting bodies and has two international PCT patents.

Contact Details
Email: sharon.ricardo@stemcellcentre.edu.au