Researcher

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

Cancer cell biology, Cancer therapy (excl. chemotherapy and radiation therapy), Bioinformatics and computational biology

Biography

Dr Dongli Liu is an early career researcher within the School of Clinical Medicine at the Lowy Cancer Research Centre. After completing her PhD in 2018, Dongli joined the Gynaecological Cancer Research Group as a postdoc researcher working on novel biomarkers in ovarian and endometrial cancers. She has extensive experience in molecular and cell biology techniques including patient-derived primary cell culture as well as bioinformatics skills...view more

Dr Dongli Liu is an early career researcher within the School of Clinical Medicine at the Lowy Cancer Research Centre. After completing her PhD in 2018, Dongli joined the Gynaecological Cancer Research Group as a postdoc researcher working on novel biomarkers in ovarian and endometrial cancers. She has extensive experience in molecular and cell biology techniques including patient-derived primary cell culture as well as bioinformatics skills for next generation sequencing (NGS).


My Grants

2024 UNSW 3Rs grant, Endometriosis Australia 2021 project grant, 2022 MAZDA Foundation and Australian Gynaecological Cancer Foundation grant, 2023 UNSW EMCR seed grant, and 2022 UNSW Medicine ECAN-Ramaciotti Centre ECR grant.


My Awards

  • 2023 ANZGOG Annual Scientific Meeting Best Poster Award, Brisbane;

    2022 ANZGOG Annual Scientific Meeting 2022 Abstract Award, Melbourne;

    2017 GEDDA AWARD by the 16th International Congress on Twin Studies Madrid, Spain;

    2016 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad.

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My Research Supervision


Areas of supervision

Biomarkers in ovarian and endometrial cancers;

Preclinical models for cell viability and metastasis;

Advanced patient-derived models;

Drug repurposing and preclinical drug test.


Currently supervising

One Honours students and two PhD candidates. 

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Location

Lowy Cancer Research Centre