Dr Jully Gogoi Tiwari.
Curtin Health Innovation Institute (CHIRI) Research Associate Dr Jully Gogoi Tiwari has quite different research goals and seems to do exceedingly well in both. One is to find a cure for liver cancer with CHIRI, and her other passion is finding a cure for mastitis in cattle, which actually, is also relevant for human health.
Jully must be one of CHIRI’s best examples of diversity being ‘the spice of life’! This interesting mix can be explained with a bit of background about Jully, who originally trained as a veterinarian, but then diversified her research interests with a CHIRI-PhD in the Liver Diseases and Regeneration group, focusing on the role of liver progenitor cells in liver regeneration and in liver cancer.
Demonstrating her extraordinary breadth of talent, on this occasion we are celebrating Jully being shortlisted by the Dairy Research Foundation (DRF) as a finalist in the 2018 Emerging Dairy Scientists’ Program. Jully will this week present her research on “A new approach to develop an effective vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus mastitis” at a DRF symposium in New South Wales.
Jully was required to submit a short promotional video as part of her application, which is on the DRF’s Facebook page https://buff.ly/2NSmTn4.
During her mastitis studies, Jully’s research focus was on the development and evaluation of effective vaccines for the prevention of mastitis. Jully developed three potential vaccine candidates against S. aureus, two of which have showed promising results.
The S.aureus bacterium is one of the most common hospital-acquired pathogens, often realized in immunocompromised older-aged subjects. Strains of S.aureus that are resistant to antibiotic therapies (‘golden staph’) are a major cause of morbidity and death. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics develops with the exaggerated repeated use of antibiotics. Developing a vaccination strategy to prevent mastitis would reduce the risk of developing antimicrobial resistance.
On behalf of her colleagues and friends at CHIRI, we wish Jully the best of luck at the DRF symposium.
Jully wins!
We are proud to announce that Jully took out the win at the symposium (pictured below) and was crowned the 2018 Emerging Dairy Scientists’ Program winner. Congratulations to Jully on her great achievement.
DRF Emerging Dairy Scientist award.
