Keynote speaker

Professor Aleksandra Filipovska is a NHMRC Investigator, Louis Landau Chair in Child Health Research at the University of Western Australia and the Telethon Kids Institute in Perth, Australia and a Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Synthetic Biology. She received her PhD from the University of Otago, New Zealand and she was a NZ Foundation for Research, Science and Technology Fellow at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, the United Kingdom. Her group focuses on the regulation of gene expression by RNA-binding proteins and lipid metabolism in models of disease and multi-omic technologies to elucidate their molecular functions. She develops treatments for mitochondrial, metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. Aleksandra is an elected fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

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