Gerontology & Geriatric Research

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Biography

Denise Jackson is the Discipline Head of Laboratory Medicine at RMIT University, Bundoora campus west. She is Head of the Thrombosis and Vascular Biology laboratory and is also an Honorary NHMRC fellow.

Research Interest

Research in the Thrombosis and Vascular Diseases Research team aims to understand the cellular mechanisms of how blood clots are formed and what leads to stabilisation of blood clots. The research of Associate Professor Jackson and her team ranges from work on the cellular, molecular, physiological and biochemical aspects of thrombosis, to small animal models of in vivo thrombus formation and ischaemic stroke. In addition, research of this team examines the importance of cell surface receptors known as immunoreceptors in infection and immunity, with a particular emphasis on bacterial pathogens.