Dr Zaklina Kovacevic

Dr Zaklina Kovacevic

Senior Lecturer

Bachelor of Medical Sciences (Honours Class 1), University of Sydney - 2006

PhD (Medicine), University of Sydney - 2011

Medicine & Health
School of Biomedical Sciences

Dr. Kovacevic completed her PhD in 2011 at the University of Sydney, where she also undertook her post-doctoral studies, being supported by joint NHMRC and CINSW Early Career and Career Development Fellowships. Her PhD studies focused on developing a new class of metal-binding thiosemicarbazones as anti-cancer agents and elucidating their molecular mechanisms in numerous cancer types including pancreatic, prostate and breast cancers. This work facilitated the entry of lead agent, DpC, into ...

E-mail
z.kovacevic@unsw.edu.au
Location
Level 4E Wallace Wurth Building C27 University of NSW Team website: http://unsw.to/tme-lab

Kovacevic Z., Beheshti E.H. Unlocking the potential of cancer associated fibroblasts to defeat pancreatic cancer. NHMRC Ideas Grant (2023-2025) $637,000

Kovacevic Z., Beheshti E.H. Sahni, S. and Timpson P. Identifying metabolic changes in pancreatic fibroblasts during development of pancreatic cancer to facilitate early detection. PanKind Innovator Grant 2023 $99,077

 

2017      Recipient of a 2016 Sydney Medical School Award for Excellence for Outstanding Early Career Researcher ($1500).

2016      Awarded the NSW Premier’s Award for Outstanding Cancer Research Fellow of the Year by the Cancer Institute of NSW ($20,000).

To find out more about my team's research activities and our current projects, you can visit our website.

My Research Supervision

Mr. Jiawei Chang (Kevin) – PhD student

Mr. Shafi Alenizi – PhD student

Miss. Yujie Li – PhD student

Mr. Mekonnen Sisay – PhD student

Miss. Balquees Kanwal – visiting PhD student