Dr Azin Amin
PhD
Research Fellow
Location
Parkville Campus
30 Royal Parade
Parkville Victoria 3052
Research groups
Motor Neurone Disease Group
Peptide and Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Group
Biography
Dr Azin Amin is a Research Fellow at The Florey. She completed her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2022. Her research focuses on developing novel blood-brain barrier penetrating peptide therapeutics that modulate an intracellular pathway called ‘autophagy’ to use as a potential treatment for motor neurone disease (MND) and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Career highlights
Current roles
- Graduate Research Representative – The Florey Postdoctoral Association
- Member of the Communications Committee in Women in Autophagy
Awards and achievements
- 2023 – Travel Award for the ISN Advanced School and ISN-ESN Meeting
- 2023 – Nina Buscombe Award for the MNDRA National Research Symposium
- 2022 – Travel Award for the 8th Modern Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis and its applications Symposium
- 2021 – Poster prize from Melbourne Protein Group Student Symposium
- 2020 – Prize finalist from MDHS Graduate Research Conference
- 2019 – Young investigator award and Best student award from Peptide User Group Symposium
- 2018–2020 – Bethlehem Griffiths Research Foundation scholarship