Yvette Wooff

Postdoctoral researcher
Clear Vision Research group, John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University

Canberra, ACT

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Biography

I am a Level A Academic postdoctoral researcher in the Clear Vision Research group at the Australian National University’s Eccles Institute of Neuroscience - John Curtin School of Medical Research, where I also completed my PhD. I am originally from New Zealand and completed my undergraduate and honours degrees at the University of Auckland in the Dept of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. I have strong research interests in the fields of innate immunity and the role of extracellular vesicles in health and disease. My ultimate research goals are to work within these fields helping to better understand, and develop targeted therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases.

Outside of my research life I am a mother to 3 young children and enjoy ice skating and chess.

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Grant

2020

Gordon and Gretel Bootes Foundation Grant: The use of retinal EV in immune cell reprogramming for the treatment of retinal degenerative diseases

Academic paper

2020

Wooff, Y. et al. Small-Medium Extracellular Vesicles and Their miRNA Cargo in Retinal Health and Degeneration: Mediators of Homeostasis, and Vehicles for Targeted Gene Therapy. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 14, doi:10.3389/fncel.2020.00160 (2020).
Blog post

2020

Small things can take you virtually anywhere.
Media article

2020

Life after a PhD (and the pandemic!)