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Dr Dodie Pouniotis
Dr Dodie Pouniotis is a NHMRC postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer in the School of Medical Sciences.
Research
Dr Pouniotis's research interests are in cancer research, specifically in the areas of cellular immunology and vaccine development. She came to RMIT with a NHMRC Peter Doherty fellowship to pursue her interest in the tumour biology and understanding the role of the tumour microenvironment in tumour growth and metastases. She also has a number of clinical research projects investigating the role of immune cells such as macrophages and T cells in lung and endometrial cancer. She has close collaborations with the Burnet Institute, Mercy Hospital for Women, Austin Health and the Institute for Breathing and Sleep. She also has experience supervising postgraduate students including honours, MD and PhD.
Teaching
As lecturer in pathology, Dr Pouniotis coordinates and teaches into general and systemic pathology courses undertaken by students from various programs. She has also coordinated and taught into a number of pathology, histology, immunology and anatomy courses at Victoria University, Southern School of Natural Therapies and Australian College of Natural Medicine.
Awards
- Starfingers Postgraduate Scholarship, 2000
- Best Scientist Prize, Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2005
- Travel Grant, Institute of Breathing and Sleep, 2005
- Peter Doherty Award, Brisbane Immunology Group, 2005
- Cass Foundation Limited, Postdoctoral Travel Grant, 2006
- Australian Society of Immunology (ASI), Postdoctoral Travel Award, 2006
- Ian McKenzie Travel Award, Burnet Institute, 2006
- NHMRC Peter Doherty Postdoctoral Fellowship – 2008-2011
Previous appointments
- Honorary Lecturer, Immunology, Monash University
- Research Associate, Burnet Institute
- Research Associate, Institute of Breathing and Sleep
- Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Austin Health
- BAppSc (Human Biology), RMIT University, 1999
- BSc (Hons), Uni Melb, 2000
- PhD (Pathology), Uni Melb, 2004
- Grad Cert Clin Trial Mangt, Uni Canberra, 2004
- Australian Society of Immunology
- Thoracic Society of Victoria
- Immunology Group of Victoria
- VCOG Gynaecological Cancer Committee
- Edirisinghe, N.,Flavel, M.,Pouniotis, D.,Zakariaee Abkoo, R.,Lim, K.,Dias, D. (2024). From feed to fork: immunity, performance and quality of products from farm animals fed sugarcane products In: Frontiers in Animal Science, 5, 1 - 11
- Al Balushi, N.,Boyd-Moss, M.,Samarasinghe, R.,Rifai, A.,Franks, S.,Firipis, K.,Long, B.,Darby, I.,Nisbet, D.,Pouniotis, D.,Williams, R. (2022). Self-Assembled Peptide Habitats to Model Tumor Metastasis In: Gels, 8, 1 - 16
- Weller, C.,Martin, C.,Bouguettaya, A.,Underwood, M.,Barker, A.,Haines, T.,Pouniotis, D.,Wolfe, R. (2021). Once daily 300 mg aspirin with compression versus compression alone in patients with chronic venous leg ulcers (ASPiVLU): A randomised, double-blinded, multicentre, placebo-controlled, clinical trial In: Journal of Tissue Viability, 30, 509 - 516
- Burchall, G.,Pouniotis, D.,Teede, H.,Ranasinha, S.,Walters, K.,Piva, T. (2019). Expression of the plasminogen system in the physiological mouse ovary and in the pathological polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) state In: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, 17, 1 - 14
- Wilson, K.,Pouniotis, D.,Hanley, J.,Xiang, S.,Ma, C.,Coppel, R.,Plebanski, M. (2019). A Synthetic Nanoparticle Based Vaccine Approach Targeting MSP4/5 Is Immunogenic and Induces Moderate Protection Against Murine Blood-Stage Malaria In: Frontiers in Immunology, 10, 1 - 12
- Shahhoseini, E.,Feltis, B.,Nakayama, M.,Piva, T.,Pouniotis, D.,Geso, M. (2019). Combined Effects of Gold Nanoparticles and Ionizing Radiation on Human Prostate and Lung Cancer Cell Migration In: International journal of molecular sciences, 20, 1 - 14
- Brooks, N.,Hsu, J.,Esparon, S.,Pouniotis, D.,Pietersz, G. (2018). Immunogenicity of a tripartite cell penetrating peptide containing a MUC1 variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) and a T helper epitope In: Molecules, 23, 1 - 21
- DOWMAN, L.,McDonald, C.,Bozinovski, S.,Vlahos, R.,GILLIES, R.,Pouniotis, D.,HILL, C.,GOH, N.,Holland, A. (2017). Greater endurance capacity and improved dyspnoea with acute oxygen supplementation in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients without resting hypoxaemia In: Respirology, 22, 957 - 964
- Al Matroodi, S.,McDonald, C.,Darby, I.,Pouniotis, D. (2016). Characterization of M1/M2 tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs) and Th1/Th2 cytokine profiles in patients with NSCLC In: Cancer Microenvironment, 9, 1 - 11
- Pouniotis, D.,Tang, C.,Apostolopoulos, V.,Pietersz, G. (2016). Vaccine delivery by penetratin: mechanism of antigen presentation by dendritic cells In: Immunologic Research, 64, 887 - 900
10 PhD Completions2 PhD Current Supervisions
- The role of tumour microenvironment and tumour stroma in cancer growth and metastasis. Funded by: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Australia Fellowship Grant Pre-2014 from (2008 to 2014)