Associate Professor Sharon Ricardo
Group Leader
Renal Regeneration Group
Bio-sketch
Associate Professor Sharon Ricardo obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne in 1994. She was awarded a US National Kidney Foundation Fellowship to conduct postdoctoral studies at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine where she was appointed an Assistant Professor in 1996. In 2000 she returned to Australia as an NHMRC Howard Florey Fellow and commenced studies at Monash University. Sharon was named the Kidney Health Australia Bootle Scholar (2003-2007). She has previously held a US National Kidney Foundation Fellowship (1994-1996); an American Heart Association Initiator Investigator Fellowship; and received the Judy S. Finkelstein Award from Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine; and the Marion Merrell Dow Excellence in Renal Research Award from the American Physiological Society. Sharon is currently a Group Leader of the Renal Regeneration Laboratory in the Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories (MISCL), Monash.
The Renal Regeneration Laboratory is focused on the development of new adult stem cell-based therapies that may offer alternatives for patients undergoing kidney transplantation and long-term dialysis.
The development of new stem cell-based therapies in combination with newly discovered repair factors may offer alternatives for renal transplantation. This field of regenerative medicine is the focus of the Renal Regeneration Laboratory. Therapies may involve the administration of stem cells or potential regenerative growth factors to patients that will slow the development of kidney disease and/or regenerate damaged kidney tissue.
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