HONOURS STUDENT

Rong Bao

What is your current research interest?

Investigating cellular inflammatory response during stress and infections

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What is your favourite experiment?

Immunohistochemistry

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What are your favourite hobbies outside of the lab?

Hiking

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What is your favourite cuisine?

Chinese

BIO:

I am an Honours student who joined the Vision Lab at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU in 2020. My research so far has been focusing on optimising photobiomodulation therapy in preventing or treating retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), which, is an ocular disease highly associated with retinal neovascularisation of preterm babies. We proposed that 670nm red light can restore the normal retinal vasculature growth of the premature babies, so as to regress the pathology that follows.