Gemma Figtree
Professor
Medicine
University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
Gemma Figtree is a Professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney and is an interventional cardiologist at Royal North Shore Hospital. She completed her DPhil at Oxford University in 2002 supported by a Rhodes Scholarship and has continued working in the field of oxidative signalling and translational cardiovascular research. She is committed to improving the care for patients with heart attack- developing methods of identifying those at highest risk of adverse outcome, and discovering novel therapies to prevent and treat events. Discoveries in her Laboratory have been published in leading journals Circulation, European Heart Journal, JACC and Circulation, with >100 publications in peer-review journals. GF is a principal investigator on grants from NHMRC, the Heart Foundation, Heart Research Australia, Sydney Medical Foundation that have totalled >$4 mill. She is personally supported by a Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship (2013-) and a NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (2013-).
Research Interest
Medicine
Publications
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Lawley, C., Lain, S., Figtree, G., Sholler, G., Winlaw, D., Roberts, C. (2017). Mortality, rehospitalizations and costs in children undergoing a cardiac procedure in their first year of life in New South Wales, Australia. International Journal of Cardiology, 241, 156-162.
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O'Neill, E., Kaur, A., Bishop, D., Shishmarev, D., Kuchel, P., Grieve, S., Figtree, G., Renfrew, A., Bonnitcha, P., New, E. (2017). Hypoxia-responsive cobalt complexes in tumor spheroids: Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and magnetic resonance imaging studies. Inorganic Chemistry, 56(16), 9860-9868.
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Figtree, G., Nelson, G., Bhindi, R. (2017). Festschrift for Professor Stephen Hunyor � Celebrating his Clinical and Scientific Contribution and the Legacy he has Left at Royal North Shore Hospital, and the Broader Cardiovascular Research Community. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 26(1), 6-9.
