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ASMR’s professional development webinar series for 2025 will wrap up with a webinar by the 2024 ASMR Peter Doherty Leading Light recipient, Professor Francine Marques.

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From Bench to Breakthrough: Lessons from Building a Research Career

Time: 3-4pm AEDT
Date: Thursday, 9 October 2025
Presenter: Prof Francine Marques

Professor Francine Marques is a Fellow of the NHMRC (Emerging Leader 2), the Viertel Charitable Foundation, and the National Heart Foundation (Future Leader 2). She earned her PhD in genomics from the University of Sydney in 2012, followed by postdoctoral training supported by prestigious fellowships from the NHMRC and the Heart Foundation. Since 2018, she has led the Hypertension Research Laboratory at Monash University, now based at the Victorian Heart Institute, where she also serves as Deputy Director (Discovery). Her research focuses on improving cardiovascular health by building exceptional researchers and exploring innovative, translational strategies to lower blood pressure through the gut microbiome. Professor Marques has secured over $12 million in competitive funding and published more than 140 peer-reviewed papers. Her work has been recognised with 35 awards, including the 2019 AHA Hypertension Council Goldblatt Award, the 2021 Australian Academy of Science Gottschalk Medal, and the 2024 Australian Society for Medical Research Peter Doherty Leading Light Award.