Retinal Research Group (Shu Lab)

I'm so excited to be hiring my first postdoc! If you love retinal biology and developing new therapeutics to cure blindness, please apply! Thank you to the @brightfocusfoundation for supporting my research and enabling me to grow my research team! external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5348…

Thrilled to share our new paper in Cellular Signalling! 🎉 We show that dimethyl fumarate, a multiple sclerosis drug, blocks harmful eye vessel growth, opening the door to new treatments for age-related macular degeneration! @retinalresgroup linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S…

So excited that our review on angiofibrosis in retinal and choroidal diseases is now out! Well done to my students Fergus and Kelvin on their first publication and first-author publication at that! Free access for the next 50 days via this link kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…

Wow! This news made my day! Thank you so much @MetabolitesMDPI for the Best Paper Award! This review covers the role of oxidative stress in eye diseases, covering the front to back of the eye! Read the review here: mdpi.com/2218-1989/13/2… @lennikov @MengluYangMD @gammaDave1

Check out our official laboratory notebooks! ☺️🙌

Congratulations to my talented research students Kelvin, Fergus, Sarah and Sophia on graduating today! So proud! And so amazing to be in my first academic procession! 🥳🙌 @retinalresgroup @UNSWoptomvsci @KeayLisa @LNivisonSmith @nicole_carnt

Busy lab day with new collaborations with Prof Kelly Clemens! 😊🙌 Great dissection work today by Kelvin and Katrina!

First Shu Lab group meeting for 2025! Excited for all the growing lab and for all the awesome projects this year! @retinalresgroup

Happy birthday to our super talented research student @randomkg21 Kelvin completed his Honours year with First Class Honours last year! So excited he’ll be continuing to contribute to our research projects! 🥳🙌

Thrilled to have @meng.katrina as our newest lab member contributing to our AMD research projects 🥂 Welcome Katrina! 🥳

A lovely day on campus @UNSWoptomvsci 🥰

Our latest additions to the Shu lab thesis library 🥰📚 @EyeDaisyShu

So proud of our Honours students @randomkg21 @fergus_mcl on achieving First Class Honours! What a fantastic year of research! It was an Honour ;) to have these talented students in the lab! 🤓 The first Honours students of the Shu lab! @EyeDaisyShu

So wonderful to be collaborating with @AshishMisraLab on a new diabetic retinopathy project at @HRIAust Training our summer student Kate Fox on retinal dissections today! Go Kate! 👁️ 🔬 @EyeDaisyShu

Wonderful work by our final year optometry students Sarah and Sophia in their research project on photobiomodulation and its impact on ocular health! Thank you to our supervisory team Dr Lisa Nivison-Smith and Associate Professor Michele Madigan! Go team!

Lovely views on campus @unsw

We have switched on our minus 80! Hopefully the first and only time we will see this number 🤣

Always love a good conference exhibit haul! 😍

And our -80 is ready! Can’t wait to store many precious samples for years to come! @EyeDaisyShu

The Shu Lab gets its very first -80 freezer delivered 🙌 @EyeDaisyShu