Dr Ashraf Zaman
Conjoint Lecturer
PhD (Medicine), M.Sc. (Microbiology), B.Sc. (Microbiology)
Medicine & Health
School of Clinical Medicine
Dr Ashraf Zaman is a conjoint lecturer of Medicine and research fellow at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. During his PhD at UNSW, he established the first Australian low-grade brain tumour models. Dr Zaman has been instrumental in a preclinical study that led to the repurposing of an asthma drug for the treatment of terminally ill brain cancer patients. The drug is currently being used in a clinical trial at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School.
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Phone
+61-2-9355-5838
E-mail
ashraf.zaman@unsw.edu.au
Location
The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
- Publications
- Grants
- Awards
- Teaching and Supervision
- Charlie Teo Foundation collaborative research grant (2021-2023)
- Charlie Teo Foundation collaborative research grant (2019-2021)
- Higher Thinking Fund brain cancer research grant (2014-2017)
Awards and Fellowships:
- Cure Brain Cancer Foundation PhD Scholarship, UNSW (2014-2018)
- UNSW TFS Scholarship (2014-2018)
- Translational Cancer Research Network (TCRN) professional development award (2017)
- Best poster presentation award, Prince of Wales Cliical School, UNSW (2017)
- UNSW PRSS award (2016)
- 2nd EMBL Australia PhD symposium award (2015)
- Santa Lucia Foundation Fellowship, Italy (2012-2013)
- Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia Award (2009-2011)
Travel Grants:
- 20th European Cell Death Organisation (ECDO) conference grant, Rome, Italy (2012)
- Joint national young researcher symposium travel grant, Rimini, Italy (2012)
- VIBES international symposium in biosciences travel grant, Ghent, Belgium (2012)
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) Barcelona travel grant for cell biology and cancer medicine symposium, Spain (2011)
- International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cell Biology (IMPRS-MCB) travel grant, Germany (2011)
My Research Supervision
B.Sc (Honours)
PhD
My Teaching
Cell and Molecular Biology
Neuro-oncology