Angela is a Research Assistant and PhD Candidate at the Atherothrombosis and Vascular Biology laboratory. Her research focuses on testing plaque-stabilising drugs and investigating the role of the immune system in identifying novel anti-inflammatory approaches to prevent plaque rupture and heart attacks.

Angela is pursuing her PhD at the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases within the School of Translational Medicine at Monash University. She was awarded the Gordon Wheaton PhD Scholarship to support her project, which aims to define outcomes and predictive biomarkers for anticoagulant-related bleeding.

Angela completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Melbourne, majoring in Immunology, and earned a First-Class Honours degree with the Department of Paediatrics at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. As part of The New Vaccines Group, she investigated the cellular basis of long-term immunity following HPV vaccination, focusing on memory B cells to assess vaccine efficacy after reduced-dose vaccinations.