Dr Sascha Hughan PhD

Phone: +61 3 9903 0143

Email: Sascha.Hughan@med.monash.edu.au

Dr Sascha Hughan graduated from Monash University with a combined degree of Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours). She then completed a PhD at the ACBD, where she investigated the intricate signalling events that trigger platelet activation. Sascha accepted a postdoctoral position with Professor Steve Watson, in the Department of Pharmacology, Oxford University, and then later at the newly established Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham. During this time, Sascha was awarded a prestigious NHMRC CJ Martin Fellowship. Upon her return to the ACBD in 2005, Sascha has continued her work into platelet activation, specifically focussing on a family of adapter proteins that are playing a novel role in haemostasis and thrombosis.  Her work has been published in numerous top-ranking journals including Nature Medicine, Blood and the Journal of Biological Chemistry.