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Nicole Smith is an NHMRC Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. She has a B.Sc double major in Biochemistry and Chemistry from the University of Sydney. After working two years in the Pharmaceutical Industry focused on Drug Research and Development at Novogen, she completed her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Western Australia, specializing in the design and synthesis of small molecules targeting unusual nucleic acid structures, awarded in June 2010. Nicole has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie in Bordeaux, France, where she conducted studies on Unusual Nucleic Acid Structures. Her research has spanned multidisciplinary fields including Biochemistry, Chemical Biology, Biophysics, Molecular Biology, and Genomics. Nicole's key research interests involve Non-canonical Nucleic Acid Structures, G-quadruplexes, and i-Motifs, particularly in the contexts of diseases such as cancers and neurodegenerative disorders. She is actively involved in various research projects and has secured significant funding for her work, including several fellowships and grants related to cancer and neuroscience. Additionally, she has extensive teaching experience, having coordinated several units in the Biomedical Science program and supervised numerous students at the PhD and Master's levels.
University of Western Australia • Perth, Australia
Research fellow focusing on molecular sciences, studying nucleic acid structures and their implications in various diseases.
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