Associate Professor
Associate Professor Gila Moalem-Taylor
- PhD in Neurobiology (Graduated 2001, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel). Thesis: T cell immune response in the injured central nervous system.
Medicine & Health
School of Medical Sciences
I graduated with a PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. I was then awarded a Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship and worked on the role of T cells in neuropathic pain at The University of Cincinnati Medical Centre (USA). I then moved to the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney Australia, where I was awarded the UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, followed by the NSW Office of Science and Medical Research (OSMR) Career Development Fellowship under the NSW Spinal Cord Injury and Related Neurological Conditions Research Grants Program. Since 2015, I have been working as a combined track (Teaching & Research) academic in the Department of Physiology, where I lead the Neuropathic Pain Research Group at the Translational Neuroscience Facility. I manage a team of postdocs, undergraduate research students (Honours), and PhD students. I am also the Postgraduate Coordinator, School of Medical Sciences.
Phone
+61 2 90658014
E-mail
Location
School of Medical Sciences, Translational Neuroscience Facility, Wallace Wurth Building, Level 3
- Publications
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
- NHMRC Project Grant (ID # APP1162060) “Targets and mechanisms in reducing neuropathic pain through immunomodulatory treatments" - Moalem-Taylor G & Butovsky Oleg. $927,520 (2019-2023)
- 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)
- 2017 UNSW Arc Postgraduate Supervisor Award for excellence in postgraduate research supervision
- 2018 SoMS Award for Higher Degree Research Supervision
- 2018 SoMS Citation Classic Award for three papers that received 50 or more citations over any consecutive 5 years
- 2020 Researcher of the Year Award – SoMS Dec 2020
- 2021 Mid-Career Award - “We are Neuroimmunology” Mid-Career International Society of Neuroimmunology (ISNI) award
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:
- Investigating the effects of regulatory T cells and anti-inflammatory cytokines (e.g. IL-35) on glial cell regulation in mouse models of neuropathic pain.
- Investigating sensory neuron and immune/glial cell interactions using in vitro primary cell cultures.
- Novel Neuromodulation approaches to block pain transmission.
- Neuron-targeted nanoconjugates for modulating pain behaviours (with Prof Mao, UNSW).
My Teaching
- Co-convenor of the course NEUR3221 – Neurophysiology
- Postgraduate Coordinator, School of Medical Sciences.