About
Dr Philp is an Early Career Research Officer and the recent recipient of the Graham Painton Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at UNSW Medicine and Health. Her research includes identifying novel therapeutic targets in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and to improve lung allograft patient outcome and identify therapeutic strategies to prevent chronic lung allograft dysfunction.
She gained her PhD in 2017 from the Centre of Inflammation and Ageing at the University of Birmingham, UK, examining the role of adipose secreted cytokines in driving the pathological changes in osteoarthritis. She has received expert training in inflammation research and how systemic changes in cellular stress lead to alterations in fibrosis, utilising proteomics, metabolomics and Next Generation sequencing.