Gabriella started her scientific career at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre where through work experience, employment, and studies, she screened and analysed DNA binding ligands as targeted radio-protectors and radio-sensitisers.

She joined Associate Professor Alexander Pinto in the Cardiac Cellular Systems laboratory in 2018 as a Research Assistant with the heart of the work involving optimisation of protocols, single cell library preparations, flow cytometry and imaging, to comprehensively analyse the cardiac cellular composition in healthy and disease states. In 2022, Gabriella was awarded the Baker Department of Cardiovascular Research and Implementation scholarship to commence her PhD project in studying the development of heart failure, in non-ischemic injury, with a keen interest in understanding biological sex as a mediating factor in disease progression.