PhD

2015 – 2018: PhD Scholarship Australian Postgraduate Award, AUD$26 682 pa

2015 – 2018: PhD Scholarship Sydney Eye Hospital Postgraduate Foundation Top-Up Scholarship, AUD$5000 pa

2016: ARVO International Travel Grant, USD$1100

2016: ARVO Members-in-Training Outstanding Poster Award (Lens Section), USD$100

2016: University of Sydney, Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS), AUD$1553.18

2016: Award for Outstanding Presentation, Bosch Institute, AUD$50

2017: Finalist in the inaugural Translational Vision Summit, Asia-ARVO (Brisbane, Australia), Prize money USD$1000

2017: Finalist in the Bosch Institute Advanced Microscopy Facility Micrograph of the Year Competition, University of Sydney

2017: 2^nd Place, Sydney Eye Hospital Student Presentation Award, Annual Higher Degree Research Symposium, Save Sight Institute, University of Sydney

2017: University of Sydney, Sydney Medical School, Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research (Oral Presentation Category), Australian Society for Medical Research NSW Scientific Meeting 2017, AUD$500

2017: University of Sydney, Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS), AUD$1925.70

2017: J&J Vision Care Student Travel Fellowship to attend American Academy of Optometry Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, USD$750

2018: Student Travel Fellowship to attend ARVO in May, 2018 (Honolulu, Hawaii) from the American Academy of Optometry, USD$750

2018: University of Sydney, Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS), AUD$1525.05

2018: ANZSCDB Prize Student Poster, Cell Biology at ComBio2018 Sydney from the Australia and New Zealand Society for Cell and Developmental Biology Inc., AUD$300

2018: Irvin M. Borish – Essilor Ezell Fellow, American Academy of Optometry Foundation (AAOF), USD$8000 and USD$750 travel grant to attend the American Academy of Optometry Annual Meeting San Antonio, Texas (Link)

2018: 3^rd Place, Oral Presentation at the Bosch Young Investigator Annual Symposium, AUD$25

2018: Professor John Irvine Hunter Prize jointly won with PhD student Kasia Marciszewski, Discipline of Anatomy and Histology, School of Medicine, The University of Sydney, AUD$2500

2019: DMM Conference Travel Grant by The Company of Biologists to attend the ARVO Annual Meeting 2020 in Baltimore, GBP400, meeting was sadly cancelled due to COVID-19

2020: American Society of Investigative Pathology (ASIP) Trainee Travel Award for Experimental Biology, San Diego, Cancelled due to COVID-19 but award has rolled over to the next PISA meeting.

2020: American Society of Investigative Pathology (ASIP) A. D. Sobel ASIP Education Fund Trainee Scholar for the virtual meeting PISA 2020, USD$100

2021: BrightFocus Foundation  Honorable Mention Paper Award at the upcoming XV AOPT meeting on line. The award, based on the abstract you submitted, is for $200 USD. Meeting registration fee of $100 for the AOPT XV Biennial Scientific Meeting will be reimbursed by the BrightFocus Foundation.

2021: American Society of Investigative Pathology (ASIP) Experimental Pathologist-in Training (EPIT) Merit Award. The award comes with a $1,250.00 stipend and complimentary meeting registration provided by ASIP for the Experimental Biology 2021 Virtual Meeting.

2021: ProteinTech Best Postdoc Mentor Award Finalist 2021 (Link)

2021: American Society of Investigative Pathology (ASIP) PISA2021 Virtual Meeting Postdoctoral Award for Outstanding Research (Link). Award details. $100

2021: ARVO Emerging Advocate Award (Link)

2022: American Society of Investigative Pathology (ASIP) Experimental Pathologist-in Training (EPIT) Merit Award. The award comes with a $1,250.00 stipend and complimentary meeting registration provided by ASIP for the Experimental Biology 2022 Meeting in Philadelphia, PA (Link).

2023: ISER Travel Fellowship Award at the XXV Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Eye Research in Gold Coast, Australia in February 2023, $1500 USD (Link).

Undergraduate

2009: Faculty of Science Dean’s List, University of New South Wales for outstanding academic performance in 2008

2010: Faculty of Science Dean’s List, University of New South Wales for outstanding academic performance in 2009

2011: Summer Vacation Research Scholarship, University of New South Wales

2012: Luxottica Prize for Ocular Therapeutics in Year 4, University of New South Wales for the highest average result in OPTM4151 Ocular Therapeutics 4A and OPTM4251 Ocular Therapeutics 4B

2013: BOC Head of School’s Prize, University of New South Wales for   distinguished performance throughout the Bachelor of Optometry/Bachelor of Science program

2013: Luxottica Prize for Clinical Ocular Therapeutics in Year 5, University of New South Wales for the highest average result in OPTM5151 Clinical Ocular Therapeutics 5A and OPTM5251 Clinical Ocular Therapeutics 5B

2013: The Optometric Vision Research Foundation Prize, University of New South Wales for the best research project presentation in the final year of the Bachelor of Optometry/Bachelor of Science program

Awards of my trainees

2022: Tessa Fitch, ASIP PISA2022 Young Investigator Outstanding Research Award Recipient (Pre-doctoral category)