Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience

Brock and Furness Labs ~ Staff Profiles


Researchers

James Brock - Co-director
jbrock@unimelb.edu.au
John B Furness - Co-director
j.furness@unimelb.edu.au

 

Daniel Poole - Research Fellow
pooled@unimelb.edu.au

Tony Frugier - Research Fellow
tony.frugier@unimelb.edu.au   

Romke Bron - Research Fellow
r.bron@unimelb.edu.au

Trung Nguyen- Research Fellow
tvnguyen@unimelb.edu.au

Trent Reardon - Research Fellow
treardon@unimelb.edu.au


 

Major Collaborators

Professor Doug Brown - Director, Victorian Spinal Cord Service, Austin Health
douglasj.brown@austin.org.au

Professor Albert Frauman - Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Repatriation and Austin Hospitals
albertf@unimelb.edu.au

Professor Peter McIntyre - Head, Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne
pmci@unimelb.edu.au

Dr Chris O'Callaghan - Department of Medicine, Repatriation and Austin Hospitals
cjocal@unimelb.edu.au

Professor Norman Saunders - Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne
n.saunders@unimelb.edu.au

 

Professor Bob Jones - Surgery, Austin Hospital
Dr Adam Testro - Surgery, Austin Hospital
Dr Mehrdad Nikfarjan - Surgery, Austin Hospital

 

Associates

Maria Bagyanszki - Visiting Academic

Patricia Castelucci - Visiting Academic

Roberto Chiocchetti - Visiting Academic

Nadine Clerc - CNRS Principal Research Fellow
clerc.n@jean-roche.univ-mrs.fr

Katsuyo Doi - Visiting Academic

Haruko Hirayama - Visiting Academic

Alan Lomax- Visiting Academic

Hayoto Matsuyama - Visiting Academic

Yasutake Shimizu - Visiting Academic

Domenico (Mimmo) Russo – Visiting Academic

Norifumi Matsuda – Visiting Academic  
matsudan@unimelb.edu.au

Purnima Sharma – Visiting Academic  
sharmap@unimelb.edu.au

 

Support Staff

Tina Cardamone - Manager, Australian Phenomics Network (APN)
tinac@unimelb.edu.au

Dorota Ferens - Research Assistant
d.ferens@unimelb.edu.au

Joanna Gajewski – Program Manager, VNI Program Grant
joannag@unimelb.edu.au

Billie Hunne - Research Assistant
blhunne@unimelb.edu.au

Louise Pontell - Research Assistant
l.pontell@unimelb.edu.au

Hyun-Jung Cho - Research Assistant
hcho@unimelb.edu.au

Brid Callaghan- Research Assistant
bridc@unimelb.edu.au

Emma James- Administrative Assistant
emma.james@unimelb.edu.au

Steven Pouniotis – Research Assistant
spou@unimelb.edu.au  

Gene Venables – Research Assistant
veg@unimelb.edu.au     

 

Students

Leni Rivera - PhD Student
l.rivera@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au

Hussain Al Dera – PhD Student
h.aldera@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au  

Niloufer Johansen – PhD Student  
n.johansen@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au  

Michelle Thacker – PhD Student    
m.thacker@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au  

   

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