
Moalem-Taylor graduated with a PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. She was then awarded a Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship, carried out at The University of Cincinnati Medical Centre (USA). She then moved to the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, where she was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (2004-2007), followed by the NSW Office of Science and Medical Research Career Development Fellowship (2010-2013). In 2014, she was appointed as a combined track (teaching & research) academic in the Department of Physiology, where she leads the Neuropathic Pain Research Group at the Translational Neuroscience Facility, School of Biomedical Sciences, UNSW. Since her PhD, Moalem-Taylor has worked primarily in the field of neuroimmunology. Her current research focuses on the role of immune cells and their mediators in chronic pain caused by peripheral nerve injury, autoimmune diseases of the nervous system such as multiple sclerosis, and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. She manages a team of postdocs, undergraduate research students (Honours), and PhD students. She is also the Postgraduate Coordinator at the School of Biomedical Sciences.
NHMRC Ideas Grant (ID # APP1187416). “A novel approach for peripheral neuromodulation: Using ionic direct current to treat chronic pain" Moalem-Taylor G., Aplin F., Potas J., & Fridman G. $732,693.60 (2020-2023)
UNSW Medicine Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addictions Theme and SPHERE Clinical Academic Group Seed Grant – “Nanoconjugates for treating neuropathic pain in an animal model of multiple sclerosis” Moalem-Taylor Gila, Mao Guangzhao and Pascal Carrive (CIs) Housley and Krishnan (AIs) $80,000 (2022-2023)
MS Australia – “Nanoconjugates for treating neuropathic pain in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, an animal model of MS” Moalem-Taylor Gila, Mao Guangzhao and Pascal Carrive (CIs) Housley, Potas and Krishnan (AIs) $250,000 (2023-2025).
As CIA I lead NHMRC grants on preclinical studies in neuropathic pain.
My Research Supervision
I currently supervise several PhD and Honours student projects focusing on:
My Teaching