Chrishan S. Samuel PhD

Chrishan Samuel received his PhD from the Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne in 1999. He then completed 2 years of postdoctoral training at the Department of Dermatology, Stanford University and Molecular Medicine Research Institute (California, USA) under Dr Edward Amento. Chrishan returned to Australia in early 2001 and re-joined the Howard Florey Institute (under Prof Geoff Tregear), where he established the Fibrosis Laboratory in 2002 - which focused on developing novel therapeutic strategies for cardiac and renal fibrosis (scar tissue accumulation), with particular attention to defining the anti-fibrotic potential of relaxin and related peptides. During this time, his research was supported by an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2002-2004); an NHFA/NHMRC RD Wright Career Development Fellowship (2007-2011); and various grants from the NHMRC, ARC, NHF, ASCC as well as various commercial sources.