Iza Denis

Biography

Dr Iza Denis is a National Breast Cancer Foundation of Australia Fellow at the Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories, Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide. In 2009 Dr Denis completed a Bachelor in Life and Earth Sciences at the University of Rennes, France. In 2009, she undertook a Master’s program in Regenerative Medicine (funded by an ERASMUS scholarship) at the DNA damage response laboratory, National University of Galway Ireland (NUIG). Her research project was focused on elucidating cytoplasmic and nuclear signalling in response to chemotherapeutic drugs in human breast cancer cells. Dr Denis subsequently (2010) undertook an additional MSc program in Cellular Biology and Physiopathology at the University Victor Segalen of Bordeaux, France, during which she studied the role of the CXCL4 chemokine and a CXCL4 variant, CXCL4L1, in cancer-related angiogenesis. In 2014 she was awarded her PhD at the University of Nantes Cancer Research Institute, France. The focus of her PhD studies was developing new therapeutic approaches to treat mesothelioma and lung cancer, utilising nanomedicine, new epigenetic drugs and immunogenic strategies. Dr Denis has published 8 original research papers (4 as first author).

Research Interest

Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc