About
Ella completed a Bachelor of Medical Research in 2017, before continuing into an Honours Degree studying the effect of low oxygen environments on fetal brain development in the School of Medicine, University Tasmania in 2018.
She then commenced her PhD in 2019 in the Lung Growth and Environmental Health Group supervised Professor Graeme Zosky, focusing on respiratory physiology and the distal organ effects of invasive mechanical ventilation.
Ella is currently a postdoctoral research fellow as part of the Genetics Research in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (GRIPF) Study. Her research aims to characterise the in vitro cell response to genetic variants identified by the GRIPF study and evaluate what effect these variants can have on the response of the lung to environmental insults, anti-fibrotic therapy and form a basis for drug testing and discovery.
Her research interests include pulmonary physiology, induced pluripotent stem cell culture, as well as occupational lung disease.